§ Mr. WINGI wish to make a personal explanation. The other day I put on the Order Paper a question referring to the verdicts of coroners' juries upon miners' fatalities. The question was capable by inference of reflecting on public servants and others. When I put the question down I was influenced by correspondence, and, passing as I was at the time through the deep waters of bereavement, I framed that question without exercising my usual care and judgment. The Home Secretary, in reply, suggested that I had been misled, which I now at the earliest moment admit, and withdraw every possible imputation or inference suggested in the question, and I offer to anybody who may have suffered in public esteem my sincere regret.
§ Sir G. CAVEPerhaps the House will allow me to say how much I appreciate the hon. Gentleman's statement.