Part of Oral Answers to Questions — General Election – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Mai 1945.
May I ask whether it would not be much more desirable, rather than raising vexed constitutional issues on the powers of Lords and Commons, if the Prime Minister would recognise that the people of Scotland would not, for more than a temporary period, be ready to accept a Secretary of State who sits in the other House of Parliament?