HC Deb 08 February 1940 vol 357 cc390-1
33. Colonel Wedgwood

asked the Home Secretary whether steps will be taken by the police to prevent Fascist interruptions at the meetings addressed by Cabinet Ministers which are broadcast, as such interruptions are designed to, and do, help the enemy?

Sir J. Anderson

However much one may deplore such interruptions I am afraid I can only reply that, as I am sure the right hon. and gallant Gentleman will recognise, public meetings addressed by Cabinet Ministers are, under the law of this country, in the same position as any other public meetings, and no greater protection against interruptions can be given to Cabinet Ministers than to other speakers.

Colonel Wedgwood

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that if the interrupters were Communists they would be thrown out at once, and that merely because they are Fascists they are not?