Part of Air Estimates, 1958–59 – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 March 1958.
That is the point to which I was coming.
In the Report of the Singapore Constitution Conference, it is stated that
Her Majesty's Government therefore proposed that there should be established some purely consultative machinery through which the United Kingdom and the Government of Singapore should consult upon and discuss all matters and problems affecting the Singapore Government arising from Her Majesty's Government's responsibility for external affairs and defence.
According to the Prime Minister's reply on 18th February, however, that was not done.
That was risky in view of what is happening in Singapore at the moment. We know that at present it has a democratic form of government, but we know that at the elections in December thirteen out of fourteen of the People's Action Party candidates won their seats and that of sixteen Labour Front candidates, only four were returned.