Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 November 1973.
It will be acknowledged that we are not concerned simply with a narrow legal point, although it probably requires greater study and a more authoritative ruling than the Minister has been able to give at short notice. Does the Minister accept that it was not the intention of the Government—or was it—that the political fund of an organisation could be raided in this way?