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Business of the House

Like the hon. Gentleman, I am always happy to toady to the Press Gallery and congratulate Britain’s finest journalists there. [Hon. Members: ““Name names. Where are they?””] My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary set out the Government’s position, which has been set out in those terms on a number of previous occasions, so it was a matter of surprise to members of the Government as much as to others that that interpretation was put on it.