Viscountess AstorMay I, with the permission of the House, make a personal statement? In the House the other day I intervened in a Debate to deny the accuracy of a suggestion made by the hon. Member for East Wolverhampton (Mr. Mander), that the Prime Minister had given an interview in my house to Mr. Joseph Driscoll, which he had published in certain newspapers. I am told that my refutation of the hon. Member's allegation has been taken by some as a denial of the accuracy of the contents of the article. This, of course, is not the case. 1541 As a matter of fact, at the time of the Debate I had not seen the article, and so was not in a position to comment upon its contents, even if I desired to do so. As to a further point of misunderstanding, I never had any intention of denying that the Prime Minister had attended a luncheon at my house. The Prime Minister did so attend, the object being to enable some American journalists who had not previously met him to do so privately and informally, and thus to make his acquaintance. What I did deny, and still deny, is the suggestion that what took place on this particular occasion was an interview. An interview, I may remind the House, is a meeting arranged with a view to the communication of information intended specifically to be made the subject of articles in the Press or newspapers. I trust that I have now removed any misapprehension that there may have been in the minds of Members of this House.