Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1947.
Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that these are questions of opinion? [HON. MEMBERS: "No."] I am not engendering heat. Surely, if an appointment is made which the Government contend is done on merit but which in our opinion—I do not want to use an unparliamentary expression—is not on merit, those are questions of opinion, which cannot be put on paper.