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Stevens supported the Society for Individual Freedom and sponsored dinners for the Society at the House of Commons. He was Vice Chairman of the Conservative backbench Finance committee. In the debate on the Finance Bill in 1960, when an all-night sitting was thought to be in prospect, Stevens appeared at the Bar of the House of Commons dressed in a silk dressing gown. In November 1960, Stevens signed an amendment calling for the reversal of the judgement which held Lady Chatterley's Lover not to be an obscene publication.
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