HC Deb 30 April 1974 vol 872 c444W
Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make it his policy that Ministers within his Department visiting Communist countries make clear their opposition to Governments who do not accept basic principles of democracy and freedom, both personal and in the exchange of ideas.

Mr. Hattersley

As my right hon. Friend said in the House of Commons on 27th MarchThere has never been any hesitation on the part of the Labour Party about making clear where we stood in relation to matters of human rights, no matter what Government were involved."—[Vol. 871, c. 425.]

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