Mr Samuel Silverman: There have been a few backwoods speeches from this side of the House, too.
Mr Samuel Silverman: Is my hon. Friend aware that in last Monday's debate the President of the Board of Trade said very clearly that devaluation was not equivalent to deflation? Having persuaded me on that occasion, what does he expect me to do today?
Mr Samuel Silverman: And to maintain sterling also.
Mr Samuel Silverman: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in accordance with the custom of this House for the right hon. Member for Bexley (Mr. Heath) to challenge an hon. Member on this side of the House by means of a direct question, and then refuse to give way to him?
Mr Samuel Silverman: Does my hon. Friend—
Mr Samuel Silverman: I am sorry if I turned my back upon you, Mr. Speaker. There was no intention of disrespect. All I was asking my hon. Friend, who was good enough to give way to me, was whether it would not be competent for the Board of Trade to make a sufficient assessment of the increased costs of imports so as to be able to determine whether an increase before it was justifiable?
Mr Samuel Silverman: What does the right hon. and learned Gentleman mean by "quasi-judicial"?
Mr Samuel Silverman: Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman exclude every possibility of judicial machinery set up to determine whether a man has a right to come here or not?
Mr Samuel Silverman: What legal authority defines who becomes a citizen of a new country such as Kenya?
Mr Samuel Silverman: Is it possible then, in certain cases, for a man not to know whether he is a citizen of this country or not?
Mr Samuel Silverman: Does my hon. Friend realise that the right hon. and learned Member for St. Marylebone (Mr. Hogg) did not invent that phrase? It was invented by a man called Daniel Defoe who, in a long poem entitled "The True-Born Englishman" which he wrote at the beginning of the 18th century, described the various factors which went into the formation of this mongrel race.
Mr Samuel Silverman: Is there not an element of class legislation in what my hon. Friend suggests? How many people in this country of middle-class or superior-class emoluments regard their children under 16 as not dependent upon them? In a great many cases, their children will remain dependent up to 20 or 25 years of age.
Mr Samuel Silverman: I am pointing out that a good many people who have been responsible for their children since birth would be entitled to bring them in as dependants even over 16 years of age.
Mr Samuel Silverman: indicated dissent—
Mr Samuel Silverman: Is it not the fact that the Egyptians, for 20 years, have refused to discuss anything with Israel, even the question of the refugees?
Mr Samuel Silverman: My hon. Friend could also ask why the Canadians were allowed to listen to them, and we are not.
Mr Samuel Silverman: My hon. Friend will remember—since he heard the "Panorama" broadcast in which the students were supposed to speak—the announcement made on television that the students were about to be placed on an aeroplane for Prague and that the television operators were accompanying them and would broadcast a statement by them from the aeroplane. Nobody has heard anything more of the incident on...
Mr Samuel Silverman: I agree with some of what the hon. Gentleman is saying. Although there was not a murmur from this side against the prohibition of the speaker from Rhodesia, what does that matter? If every hon. Member on this side had supported the prohibition imposed against that person, does the hon. Gentleman now contend that, because we on this side did not raise our voices in protest on that occasion, he...
Mr Samuel Silverman: Is the hon. Gentleman now saying that what the Home Secretary has to consider is, not what the man comes to say, not who he wants to say it to, but who paid for his trip?
Mr Samuel Silverman: Would my hon. Friend deal with the point whether this decision of the Home Office was taken without reference to the Foreign Office at all?