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• Half-Hour Adjournment Debates (Arrangements) 23 Mar 1955

  What would be the position on Tuesdays and Thursdays if there should be no subjects on those days which come within the category you have suggested,

• Capital Punishment (Royal Commission's Report) 10 Feb 1955

  Is it not a fact that there is positive proof that wherever there is the remotest contact between people and the murderer, there is no difficulty in getting public opinion, in that particular case and for that person, in favour of the abolition of the death penalty?

• Representation of the People (Parliamentary Constituencies) 26 Jan 1955

  I endorse all that has been said by my colleagues representing Leeds, but I do not intend to cover the same ground. In introducing the Order the Minister did me and my constituency the honour of a special reference to the representations which we made both to the Commissioners and to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman himself. He tried to tell us that our representations had been given...

• Representation of the People (Parliamentary Constituencies) 26 Jan 1955

  I suggest from that point of view that there has been no justification in changing the name as has been suggested at the moment. I cannot for the life of me see why consideration is given to the change of name at all, because, as the old saying is, "The rose by any other name would smell as sweet," and I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that the Central division by any other name would...

• Orders of the Day — Queen's Speech: Debate on the Address 7 Dec 1954

  Further to that point of order. On the previous occasion, when my right hon. Friend was called to order, you said, Mr. Speaker, that the matter was out of order. I suggest that having given a definite Ruling that a matter is out of order, no matter what latitude was given before your Ruling, you cannot give any latitude to anybody now.

• Debate on the Address [First Day] 30 Nov 1954

  I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Itchen (Mr. Morley) will not expect me to follow his remarks. I should like to begin my remarks by referring to something which was said by the hon. Member for Dorset, North (Mr. Crouch). Like a good many hon. Members on the other side of the House, he is labouring under the delusion that, because popular opinion has compelled the Tory Party to...

• Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]: Schedule 3 Nov 1954

  But the hon. Gentleman will agree that the Queen's Speech contained a reference to the Government's intention in that sentence.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce: Softwood and Hardwood 22 Jun 1954

  Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the types of timber obtained from Canada and Japan are entirely different and are used for different purposes?

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