Former MP for Warwick and Leamington
I think that I should begin by declaring an interest. I have an unmarried daughter between the ages of 18 and 21 and three grandchildren in whom I may have a contingent interest in their future marriage and contracts. For that reason alone, I have been greatly interested in the Report which we are now debating. In some sense, to debate this subject today is rather like fiddling while Rome...
I agree that the question of the assimilation of the law concerning the general age of majority and the right to contract should be considered in a European context, and that it might well cause difficulties if we tried to get into the Common Market. If people in this country have the vote at an age which is different from that at which people vote in Europe, and there is a difference...
This is the first opportunity that. I have had of conveying publicly to the Solicitor-General my pleasure at his appointment to an ancient and honourable office and to wish him not long tenure of that office, but, at any rate, a happy one while it lasts. We are grateful to him for the care which he has given to this matter, but, while I share with him entirely the belief that both sides of...
Former MP for Warwick and Leamington
Entered the House of Commons on 7 March 1957 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 4 December 1967 — Died
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