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The Passenger Insurance Bill is Dead
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FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT
THE Motor Vehicles (Passenger Insurance) Bill met its expected end in the Commons last Friday—but in a way that no one had foreseen.
When the Bill was called, its author, Mr. John Cronin (Lab., Loughborough), referred to the campaign which had been conducted against it—he alone had received about a thousand letters—and said he wanted to withdraw the measure.
He pointed out that there was a serious social evil to remedy, with thousands who were injured every year on the roads unable to obtain redress or damages. ft would be necessary for the Government
to take some effective action at an early date, but this evil could not be remedied by a Bill which put a very heavy burden on insurers.
Mr. Cronin's proposal did not please Mr. Charles Pannell (Lab., Leeds West), one of the Bill's sponsors. Complaining that he had not been consulted, he said that he objected to the withdrawal of the Bill in this fashion.
He was still talking when the time came for the debate to end—and that settled the fate of the Bill. It will be discussed no more, and so has no chance of becoming law.