Ian Murray
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Amendment of the Law
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Ian Murray (Edinburgh South) (Lab)
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. A former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Hugh Dalton, resigned in 1947 for leaking part of his Budget to a journalist when on the way into the Chamber to deliver it. Given that we have heard nothing in the Chancellor’s statement today that had not already been trailed in the media on Monday, Tuesday and this morning, please will you, Mr Deputy Speaker, use the good offices of the Speaker to make sure that senior members of this Government make important statements to the House before going to the media?
Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)
The principle is clear, and it will have been heard by those on the Treasury Bench. We must now move on.