Fuel Supplies (Distribution)

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 10 February 1972.

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Photo of Mr John Davies Mr John Davies , Knutsford 12:00, 10 February 1972

I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman should have made that charge against my right hon. Friend. [Interruption.] The truth is that the closure of the depot is not in any sense due to any insensitive complacency of his. It is due to the fact that picketing at this depot has been carried beyond the point of reasonable peaceful picketing— [Interruption.]—and to the fact that the police, in the exercise of their duty, advised the manager of the depot to close it because of the virtual obstruction of the right of people to work, brought about by a degree of picketing not in conformity with the law.