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Business of the House

The hon. Gentleman should not pay too much attention to mid-term election polls. I sat on the Opposition Benches comforting myself month by month between elections, not about 7 per cent. leads in polls but about 25 per cent. leads, and we still lost continually. On any serious test, the Scottish National party’s position, which is to weaken Scotland’s economy and society and the United Kingdom as a whole, will be rejected again and again by the Scottish people.