Former MP for Lonsdale
The House will agree with me that my hon. Friend the Member for Wood Green (Mr. G. Locker-Lampson), who moved the Motion, made a most mild, moderate and clever speech, and I am sorry that the Prime Minister is not in his place, because there are many of us who regret the attitude which he took, and the way he lashed out and turned the vials of his ridicule upon my hon. Friend who opened the...
Has that arch-scoundrel Rory O'Connor been captured?
Would it not be useful to know beforehand the antecedents of this man?
Is there any truth in the report widely circulated in to-day's Press that the Prime Minister has notified M. Poincaré that this country would be ready to enter into an agreement with Russia, even without the sanction or consent of our gallant French allies?
I beg to move, That leave be given to introduce a Bill to reconstitute the House of Lords. It may seem almost futile to introduce a Bill like this dealing with such a titanic question as the reform of the House of Lords under the Ten Minutes' Rule, but needs must when the devil drives. Perhaps hon. Members will forgive me if I do not go into any details, but I will merely endeavour to...
Yes. It seems to me that the penalty is too drastic and too severe, although it may act very well in Holland and Europe. If my hon. and gallant Friend is really serious, would it not be better, instead of imposing a penalty of seven days, possibly with hard labour, to disfranchise the offender? Surely in this year of grace nobody is going to be forced actually to go to the poll. I do not want...
If the assassins should prove to be Sinn Feiners in disguise, will the Leader of the House give an assurance that full publicity will be given to the fact?
I take it that the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull did not want to do away entirely with the coastguard service.
