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The Labour Party by making debate impossible missed an unparalleled

opportunity for proving their case. If Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister's speech had been inadequate, as the Labour Party felt sure it would be, they could have made a profound effect upon the public by taunting the Prime Minister with offering them such departmental ineptitude in presence of all the admitted suffering in the coal areas. If the Labour Party have not a speaker who can turn such a situation to glorious party advantage it is time that they looked for one. As a matter of fact they have two or three who could have improved the occasion, but the silliness of the brawling prevented these speakers from coming into action. * * * * •

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