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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 20 October 1949.

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Photo of Mr Herbert Morrison Mr Herbert Morrison , Lewisham East 12:00, 20 October 1949

We thought it was reasonable to take that for two reasons. For one thing, the economics of the Profits Tax will, I think, be debatable during the two days' Debate; and the other thing is that a Bill on the subject will follow, so that the House will get an opportunity to come back to the subject again. These are two additional days that we have got to find, and we did not think it unreasonable to ask the House to be so good as to take that Motion, which we hope will go through expeditiously.