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Under Gunn, circulation started up and he kept it climbing. He also kept the paper in plenty of hot water. When Parliament launched an investigation in 1947 into charges by M.P. Garry Allighan that certain M.P.s were selling parliamentary secrets to the press (TIME, Aug.11, Nov. 10, 1947), it turned out in the end that Allighan was the secret-peddler-and that Gunn's paper was paying him for the news beats. Allighan was ousted from Parliament while the British press frowned on Gunn. The next year, the Standard broke the release date on a poll of British doctors...
...judge donning the black cap to pronounce the death penalty, the Speaker of the House of Commons placed his black cocked hat on his bewigged head. Then he read the sentence. For breach of confidence, an affront to the House, and contempt, the Honorable Member from Gravesend, Garry Allighan, was expelled from Commons...
...first expulsion of an M.P. in 25 years. Allighan had written a sensational article for the World's Press News, accusing unnamed M.P.s of selling confidential information to the press (TIME, Aug. 11). Aware that there are 46 working journalists in the House, the horrified Committee of Privileges had investigated. It found that Glass-House Garry himself had accepted ?30 a week from the Evening Standard for supplying information...
Florid, flustered Laborite Allighan, an ex-Fleet Streeter, had made an abject apology. But to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison's proposal that Allighan be suspended for six months, Winston Churchill snapped: "How can you stigmatize a Member as dishonorable . . . and then after an interval . . . resume calling him an Honorable Member?" The House agreed. Shortly after his expulsion Allighan resigned from the Labor Party...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...