Orders of the Day — Clause 3. — (Initial report of Commissions as to redistribution.)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 October 1944.

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Photo of Mr Walter Green Mr Walter Green , Deptford 12:00, 12 October 1944

I want to put a rather different point of view from that put by my colleagues, at the risk of being branded as a reactionary Member of my party, but I speak as an old London man. I should view the Parliamentary extinction of the City of London with the greatest regret. There is something of sentiment in my approach to this question, and I would not give much for anyone who has not something of sentiment in his make-up. I do not agree with the lurid painting of the virtues of the City by the right hon. Baronet the Member for South-West Bethnal Green (Sir P. Harris) nor with the fantastic blackening of the City by the hon. Member for West Fife (Mr. Gallacher).