Part of Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 February 1969.
Surely my hon. Friend is entitled, under the rules of order, to argue that hereditary peers should be maintained in effective membership because they include large numbers of people of high quality? Surely he should not be debarred from doing that because other hon. Members might be tempted to go out of order in answering him? Surely, Mr. Gourlay, you would prevent it if there were such a breach of order?