HC Deb 12 February 1924 vol 169 c753

What do we propose to do? First of all, we must carry on the administration of the country. There are a large number of things of no party import at all, but of national import, and these we shall carry on. Up to the end of March, we shall have to ask the House to give up most of its time to financial business which we have inherited from our predecessors—Supplementary Estimates, in the main. We shall place before the House those Resolutions carried at the Imperial Economic Conference. Everyone of them will find a place on the Order Paper. We shall indicate our views regarding each, but the House itself must decide what its decision is going to be with regard to them. We shall place at the disposal of the House every item of information on the subject in the possession of the Departments, without regard to the conclusions that may be drawn from them. Having done that, we shall have done our duty, and being a minority here, we shall have to leave the responsibility to the Members of the House of Commons.

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