Captain Sir George Elliston

Former MP for Blackburn

Recent appearances

  • Orders of the Day — Clause 3. — (Initial report of Commissions as to redistribution.) 12 Oct 1944

    It is unfortunate that the hon. Baronet, the Senior Member for the City (Sir G. Broadbridge) is unable to be here this afternoon, because I am certain he would have been amused to hear the disparaging remarks and the gibes about the City that have come so characteristically from the hon. and learned Member for North Hammersmith (Mr. Pritt). I feel, however, in spite of the satisfactory...
  • Orders of the Day — Clause 3. — (Initial report of Commissions as to redistribution.) 12 Oct 1944

    I am not interested in those figures. Even in the legal profession you have, from time to time, most distressing cases of fraudulent misconduct. I am not asking the hon. and learned Member for North Hammersmith to give me a list of the legal practitioners who have gone wrong.
  • Orders of the Day — Clause 3. — (Initial report of Commissions as to redistribution.) 12 Oct 1944

    My concern is that in the interest of this country this House should recognise the great position occupied by the City as the headquarters of the vast financial and commercial interests of the whole British Empire. It is wrong to disparage the services of the City in the interest of our nation and of the Empire. What satisfaction any Member can find in coming here to cheapen the City and to...

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