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Dennis Skinner Excerpts

Tuesday 21st July 2015 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

I call Callum McCaig. No? I call Mr Skinner.

[Mr Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

May I reassure the hon. Gentleman that I was not confusing him with Mr McCaig? I thought Mr McCaig wished to ask a question earlier. The hon. Gentleman is unique, we all know who he is and we want to hear him.

[Mr Skinner]

And I am a little bit older than him.

[Mr Speaker]

I was too polite to make that point.

[Mr Skinner]

I can do it any day of the week.

Has the Chancellor of the Exchequer not got a bit of a cheek to be constantly using Question Time to attack the Labour leadership elections—[Interruption.] Take your time! The Chancellor is involved in an election himself. Every time he opens his mouth, it is directed towards the hon. Member for Uxbridge and South Ruislip (Boris Johnson) and the Home Secretary. Does he not realise that the Home Secretary has already knocked him out with the water cannon? Remember, some of us are watching that contest very carefully. The Chancellor should be careful he does not knock himself out.

[Mr Speaker]

With particular reference to his Treasury responsibilities, I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

[Mr Skinner]

He started it: you heard him!

[Mr Speaker]

I hear everything in this Chamber.