Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 30 January 1947.
Mr Emanuel Shinwell
, Seaham
12:00,
30 January 1947
That may be the hon. Member's conception of how to run a plan, but it is not ours. All that happened was that the hon. Member for King's Norton (Mr. Blackburn) quite properly sought to serve the interests of his Constituency. He made representations accordingly, and of course I took those representations into consideration.
In a general election, each Constituency chooses an MP to represent them. MPs have a responsibility to represnt the views of the Constituency in the House of Commons. There are 650 Constituencies, and thus 650 MPs. A citizen of a Constituency is known as a Constituent
