Former MP for Gloucestershire West
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I hope that the hon. Member for Bebington (Sir H. Oakshott) will forgive me if I do not follow immediately what he has just said in his interesting speech, but I hope to touch on some of the points that he made in the course of my remarks. I cannot take the pessimistic view which some hon. Members on both sides of the House have taken about the procedure of this House and the way in which it...
I quite recognise that. I know that there are great difficulties, but I believe that it could be done. In the Finance Bill with which we have just dealt there were a number of Clauses about which only taxation experts or lawyers could speak with any degree of knowledge. While those Clauses were being discussed there were hardly any Members present. For instance, nobody but the experts...
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries we had this delicate balance that other countries had not. France's great revolution and the constitution that has followed has tended to tilt the balance in favour of the legislature against the Executive, and the result has been the dreadful situation in which France has found herself till the last twelve months. To some extent, the same is...
Former MP for Gloucestershire West
Entered the House of Commons on 30 May 1929 — General election
Left the House of Commons on 18 September 1959 — General election
Also represented Forest of Dean; Whitehaven
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