Points of Order

Angela Eagle Excerpts

Monday 10th November 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I stand by what I have said. The House will understand that in doing so I do not act entirely alone and certainly I do not do so without studying the matters and taking the advice of disinterested experts. That is what I have done, because that is my responsibility. The Home Secretary, of course, can offer her own take on the matter and doubtless she will do so. I have advanced the position in what I believe to be factual terms, unadorned but benefiting from expert advice.

[Ms Angela Eagle (Wallasey) (Lab)]

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. On 29 October, the Prime Minister said:

“I am not delaying having a vote on it”—

that is, the European arrest warrant—and:

“There will be a vote on it.”

He went on to say that

“we are going to have a vote, we are going to have it before the Rochester by-election”.—[Official Report, 29 October 2014; Vol. 587, c. 301.]

Have you had any indication from the Leader of the House whether there will be an emergency business statement so that we can facilitate a vote on the European arrest warrant rather than on everything but the European arrest warrant?

[Mr Speaker]

There are two answers to the hon. Lady. First, I have had no indication whatever that a Minister intends to make an emergency statement to the House. Secondly, I do not think that it is for me to seek to interpret the comments of the Prime Minister. It would be presumptuous of me to do so and would require probably a degree of sophistication that I do not claim that the Chair possesses.