Orders of the Day — Post Office (Household Delivery Service)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 February 1964.

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Photo of Mr Reginald Bevins Mr Reginald Bevins , Liverpool Toxteth 12:00, 4 February 1964

—and that only the right hon. Gentleman and some of his friends—I suspect that it is only some of them—happen to be right. They say that we ought to prohibit political matter, but nobody has ventured to explain—and I do not think that anybody will in the course of this debate—how one prohibits political matter, and how one decides to define political matter. The right hon. Gentleman did not attempt to do so. He went further and said that they would prohibit not only political material but matter of a highly contentious nature.

I did not want to raise this, because I thought that the right hon. Gentleman would not do so, and I did not want to rub it in too hard. If we lay down that we are to prohibit matter of a highly contentious character, we are taking censorship—