Vote Leave Campaign: Electoral Law

Roger Gale Excerpts
Monday 10th September 2018

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Westminster Hall
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Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse
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I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way—

Roger Gale Portrait Sir Roger Gale (in the Chair)
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Order. Who the hon. Gentleman who has the Floor gives way to is entirely up to him, and it is not up to the Chair to seek to intervene in that process. However, as a general rule the Chair deprecates hon. Members choosing to come into the Chamber at or near the end of a debate.

Wera Hobhouse Portrait Wera Hobhouse
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Thank you, Sir Roger. I fully accept your guidance. I had another engagement that I could not get out of. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the most reckless thing was the premature triggering of article 50? That is why I welcome this petition.