§ MR. CLYNESasked—in accordance with private notice—the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention had been drawn to the case of certain men, local leaders of a body of unemployed at Manchester, who had been sent to prison on the unsupported evidence of a man who confessed he had been twenty-four times in prison, and whether he would call for a report of the case and consider the advisability of reducing the sentences?
§ MR. GLADSTONEThe case had not previously been brought to my notice. I am asking for a report and will communicate with the hon Member.