Sittings of the House (Wednesday 17 April)

Nadine Dorries Excerpts

Tuesday 16th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Skinner]

Way back.

[Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire) (Con)]

I just want to make the point that Baroness Thatcher is lying just yards from us in her final night in this Palace. Does the hon. Gentleman not think that just on this night, when she is only yards away, in the name of nothing other than good taste, it might be as well that we called this to an end?

[Mr Skinner]

I am just making a statement about the fact that during the course of Margaret Thatcher’s parliamentary time, especially when she was Prime Minister, she was divisive, first, in the sense that she got rid of all the wets so that she could set about her agenda. There is no question at all about that—I know that has nothing to do with Question Time being abandoned, Mr Speaker.