Part of Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 June 1967.
When we get up to speak, Sir Eric, even under so kindly a Chairman, I can understand that a speech devoted to King Lear or the centenarian in Conan Doyle's play about the veteran of Waterloo might sometimes verge on the bounds of order, but all of us are passionately anxious not to stray across any sort of canal.