Mr Barnett Janner
Former MP for Leicester North West
Former MP for Leicester North West
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Mr. Speaker, you have made a Ruling which will in future, I assume, be accepted as a precedent. The House depends upon precedents. You are fully entitled to make a Ruling, if there is no obvious precedent, which will in itself become a precedent. In the circumstances, is it not a pure waste of time on the part of those who oppose that Ruling—[HON. MEMBERS: "Oh."] It is no good hon. Members...
—that it is a pure waste of time, an attempt to impede. I seek your Ruling, Mr. Speaker. You having given your view on the matter, clearly and categorically, is there any method by which this type of interruption can be stopped, so that we can proceed?
asked the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications if he will seek powers to make a social grant to the Post Office to enable it to exempt old-age pensioners living alone, for whom the telephone is the only means of summoning aid, from the recent increase in telephone charges.
Former MP for Leicester North West
Entered the House of Commons on 27 October 1931 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 29 April 1970 — General election
Also represented Leicester West; Stepney Whitechapel and St George's
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