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Business question from Peter Bone (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 21 July 2016. It occurred during Business statement on Business of the House.


Business of the House

I am somewhat worried about the Europe Minister—sorry, the Leader of the House. Since his appointment to that role, he has had a rather nasty gash on his forehead. A nasty rumour has been going around that when he was appointed the Prime Minister said to him, “I have some good news, David. You will no longer be the Minister for Europe,” to which he replied, “That’s great; I won’t have to answer questions from my hon. Friends the Members for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers), for Kettering (Mr Hollobone), for Bury North (Mr Nuttall), for Shipley (Philip Davies) and for Wellingborough (Mr Bone),” but when she told him that instead he was going to be Leader of the House, he started banging his head against the wall. Will he confirm that that is not true? I warmly welcome him to his post.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
613 c983 
Session
2016-17
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Lidington, David
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on hansard.parliament.uk