If it is hard for the county householder not to have a voice in saying what laws he wants made for him, it is at least as hard and at least as humiliating that, at a Crisis in Foreign Affairs, he should not have a voice in determining on which side his country should fight, or whether it should fight at all.

]—and defer to a future occasion the condemnation of the Government—if the Government is to he condemned—or at all events a discussion of the policy the Government are pursuing in this grave and difficult Crisis in Our Foreign Affairs.

We always hear exactly the same story in every Crisis in Foreign Affairs.

My hon. Friend the Member for Gravesend put the matter very attractively by saying that there might be a Foreign Affairs Crisis during the Recess, and Members could be recalled to consider foreign affairs.

If one means a Crisis in Our Foreign Affairs, it is nonsense, of course.

There is a Crisis in Foreign Affairs, but, above all, there is a real crisis in the national health service.

Intriguingly, he referred to a Foreign Affairs Crisis in Southend.