Former MP for Camberwell Peckham
I want also to support the Amendment, because I think this tax is one that should have been scrupulously avoided at a time like this. We are told that the whole basis upon which this very heavy extra taxation has been put on the nation is a sudden crisis which demands the Government doing a very unpopular thing. No speaker on the benches opposite has pretended to like imposing all this extra...
It would not he fair to take that one particular suggestion. There are many others.
I am sure the hon. and gallant Member for Gainsborough (Capt. Crookshank) will forgive me if I do not follow his speech at great length, but I would like to say that he has furnished what, to my mind, has been the first quite good reason for the change of sides in this House. It has relieved him from that midnight responsibility which used to haunt him in the first two years of this...
Former MP for Camberwell Peckham
Entered the House of Commons on 29 October 1924 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 7 October 1931 — General election
Also represented Gateshead
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