GROWING CABINET
Protest By Peer
(N.Z.P. A.‘Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, December 15. An elder statesman of Britain’s ruling Labour Party. 76-year-old Lord Morrison of Lambeth, today criticised the Government of the Prime Minister, Mr Harold Wilson, for its “unhealthy growth.” Speaking in a House of Lords debate on a Government bill raising the legal number of Government ministers from 70 to 91, the former deputy Premier of a previous Labour Government said: “Although a loyal member of the Labour Party, for which I have sometimes suffered, and although a supporter of this Government, which I wish well, I think that this is a constitutionally questionable, and somewhat dangerous, development.” It was “no mean increase,” he said, to raise the number of Ministers by 21. “I think the growth is unhealthy and it is a great pity it has happened,” he said. The Bill, already passed by the House of Commons, was given an unopposed second reading.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30626, 17 December 1964, Page 19
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