HIS ANNUAL PROTEST
BILLS THROWN ON FLOOR OF COMMONS LONDON, August 16. • When Mr Herbert Morrison asked the Commons to agree to the Government taking all private members' .time, in view of its heavy legislative programme, Sir Alan P. Herbert made his "annual" protest against the motion. He declared that as he could not present Bills he would throw them on the floor as a challenge to despotic power. He .thereupon threw a number of Bills into the centre of the Chamber. The Conservatives challenged, and on a division—the first of the new Parliament— : the Government motion was carried, by 329 votes to 142.
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Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7
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104HIS ANNUAL PROTEST Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 7
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