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On Tuesday the Parliamentary Labour Party issued a curious statement

to the effect that the Consultative Committee to whom Labour members submit their amendments for approval do not, by certifying an amendment, imply that they wish it to be passed. They merely mean that the amendment is worthy of discussion. This announcement explains the appearance of fresh amendments by discontented Labour members after the Party as a whole had decided to support the Unemployment Insurance Bill. Nevertheless, as the Times Parliamentary correspondent points out, the debate which caused the Withdrawal of the original clause about those " genuinely seeking work " was by no means a sham fight. According to the arrangements of the Labour Party this is what it ought to have been.

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