Mr David Lloyd George
Former MP for Caernarvon District of Boroughs
Former MP for Caernarvon District of Boroughs
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I do not propose to speak for more than a few minutes, and I shall confine myself to the usual conventional intervention on these occasions. At the same time, my agreement with the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Snowden) as to the quality of the speech to which we have just listened is certainly not conventional. We have been led to expect a very fine rhetorical...
He has only just switched on!
I should like to add a few words to what has been said by my hon. Friend the Member for West Walthamstow (Mr. Crawfurd) and by the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Central Hull (Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy) on the question of political broadcasting. I think that the stage has been reached when the right hon. Gentleman the Postmaster-General must intervene. There are decisions that the...
Former MP for Caernarvon District of Boroughs
Entered the House of Commons on 10 April 1890 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 12 January 1945 — unknown
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