Debate on the Address

Part of Orders of the Day — Queen's Speech – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 November 1959.

Alert me about debates like this

Photo of Mr Michael Maitland Stewart Mr Michael Maitland Stewart , Fulham 12:00, 3 November 1959

If the right hon. Gentleman intends to make a comparison with when we were in office and hon. Members opposite were in opposition, ought he not to take the whole period? What he is doing at the moment is to start the Labour Government's record in the year 1946. That is to omit from its record the major step it took to improve the position of old-age pensioners.