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Challenge on Labour Transport Policy ...
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I ORD MORRISON OF LAMBETH La condemned a Government challenge to the Labour Party to state its policy towards road transport at the end of a five-hour debate in the Lords last week.
Viscount Blakenharn, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who posed the questions, was said by Lord Morrison to have finished with a peroration, "a copy of which has been supplied to him by the Tory Central Office.
"What is the good of him, in the last five minutes of his speech, after the whole debate has taken place, challenging us to take another hour. two hours or three hours answering the questions he has put?" asked Lord Morrison.
"1 am not going to answer them in a sentence: not at all. It is well known that we are in favour of long-distance road haulage being made publicly owned and fitted in, with proper co-ordination, with railway services—perfectly well known."
Lord Blakenham, who was putting the Government view at the end of a debate on transport problems. finished his speech with a number of questions about Labour policy.
Did they intend to re-nationalize road haulage, and what would they do about the many holders of private carriers' licences, he asked,
Would their distance limits be the same as the previous 25-mile radius—if this was so it would represent nationalization by strangulation.
Turning to C licences, Lord Blakenharn said that in his autobiography Lord Morrison revealed that in 1947 he was in favour of bringing C licences into the public service, but he was defeated by the Co-ops and by Douglas Jay.
What was the present policy of the Labour Party concerning these 11m: vehicles? It had been reported that the Labour Party had recently been consulting various unions on aspects of their policies. Had they been consulting the Co-ops on their reactions. to restrictions on C licences, he asked.
"These are questions about which the country wants to know ", ended Lord Blakenham, "and 1 hope that when we have another . transport debate the Opposition will produce a strong positive policy, something which they have absolutely failed to do in the debate today."