Clause 1. — (Duty on Tea.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Finance Bill. – in the House of Commons at on 19 June 1922.

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Photo of Mr Austin Hopkinson Mr Austin Hopkinson , Mossley

Hon. Gentlemen opposite speak as if the Tea Duty never existed under Free Trade Governments. I do not myself see, and, apparently, Liberal Prime Ministers in the past did not see, why duties should not be imposed upon imports such as tea just as they are imposed on other luxuries, and that, if revenue is to be raised, it is desirable that the raising of that revenue, and the burden it imposes, should be distributed as widely as possible over the people of this country. But that is not the immediate point. The point here is that the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposes to reduce certain duties, and,