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SPECIAL ROUNDUP
APRIL 10, 1986
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FOLLOWING ARE MAIN POINTS MADE BY SDP MP IAN WE VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BRITISH/HK PARLIAMENTARY GROL CONFERENCE THIS AFTERNOON:
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SDP (ex Lab ?) Slicklin South,
AS AN OPPOSITION MP,
WRIGGLESWORTH SAID HE HAD HE IMPRESSION
INTO THE BN(0)
THAT UK GOVT IS LIKELY TO FIND THE WORDING TO PASSPORT= UK GOVT LIKELY TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR EXSERVICEMEN= BUT IT MAY NOT SHIFT ITS STANCE ON THE ETHNIC /
NORITIES.
ASKED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE HOUSE OF LORDS BLOCKIN MOVE AS REPORTED IN TODAY'S SCMP, HE SAID HE DID NOT TNK THEY WOULD OVERTURN THE ORDER AS IT WOULD GIVE RISE TO A 'NSTITUTIONAL BATTLE, BUT HE ADDED HE HOPED THE LORDS WILL CK UP AN ENORMOUS FUSS.
HE SAID THE OVERTURN MOVE WOULD BE UNPRECEDENT! ). AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ORDER CONCERNING RHODESIA IN THE 1960S, HE SAID THAT CAUSED A GREAT AMOUNT OF FURORE AND HE BELIEVE! IT DID NOT MATERIALISE, ADDING THAT IT WAS BEFORE MY TIME.
ALTHOUGH HE STILL EXPECTS TO SEE THE LORDS PRO ST, HE THINKS THE BLOCKING MOVE IS UNLIKELY+.
HE DID NOT AGREE THAT UK GOVT DID NOT TAKE HK PEOPLE INTO CONSIDERATION AND THAT THEY ARE +PLAYING POLIT. S+. HE POINTED OUT THERE ARE SOME VERY RIGHT-WING TORIES WHO OULD OPPOSE TO THE (MINORITIES) ISSUE.
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