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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Defence – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 June 1972.

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Photo of Mr Norman Atkinson Mr Norman Atkinson , Tottenham 12:00, 22 June 1972

Will the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that no future Labour Government would ever use troops in the way that the Government in 1947 were able to use them during an industrial dispute? Can he conceive of a situation in which the use of troops in this country would occur in the absence of emergency powers giving the authority for them to be so used during an industrial dispute?