Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 March 1965.

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Photo of Dr David Kerr Dr David Kerr , Wandsworth Central 12:00, 5 March 1965

I am reminded, by what to others may have been an audible intervention by my hon. Friend the Member for Barons Court (Mr. Richard), of the fact that there were a number of Members of this side of the House who abstained from voting, and the question, therefore, of disciplinary whipping scarcely arises—[HON. MEMBERS: "Who abstained?"] I accept what the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Sir D. Glover) was saying, and I simply ask the indulgence of the House not to represent myself as an expert on procedure but certainly to exercise my right to offer some observations about what went on in my experience.