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Business of the House

Can we please have a debate entitled ““The Loneliness of the Prime Minister””? The Leader of the House will recall—it is faithfully recorded in Hansard—that in Prime Minister’s questions yesterday the poor Prime Minister was forced to say, with a desperate look on his face:"““I am looking around the Chamber, but I am afraid I am not getting a great deal of help.””—[Official Report, 16 November 2005; Vol. 439, c. 969.]" Nor was he, because the Cabinet were all facing the other way and Labour Back Benchers were sitting stony-faced, as they do almost every Wednesday these days. Can the Leader of the House confirm that such a debate would allow Labour Members to show how little support they are now giving to the Prime Minister and why that is the case?