Prime Minister's Role in Creating a Safe Environment Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Prime Minister's Role in Creating a Safe Environment

David T C Davies Excerpts
Thursday 26th September 2019

(4 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. We have another statement to follow in a moment from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. There is also a motion to be voted on and a further debate, so we must proceed. I regret that, because I like to hear everybody, but there is a moment of interruption today in a way that there was not yesterday. We could extend yesterday, but we cannot do so today and I have to take account of that. So unless there is a point of order appertaining to this particular exchange—

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)
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Can I make a point of order, Mr Speaker?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Very well. Point of order, David T.C. Davies.

David T C Davies Portrait David T. C. Davies
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Could you confirm that it would be unacceptable under any circumstances for a senior Member of this House to say of a female MP: “We should lynch the bastard”?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Yes. That would be totally unacceptable. I am not aware of the particular circumstance to which the hon. Gentleman is referring, but I can confirm that that is totally unacceptable.