Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Paul Flynn Excerpts
Tuesday 10th July 2012

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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The hon. Gentleman made a similar head count yesterday. His forensic fascinations, first with the early death of the Prime Minister and now with exactly who is on the Front Bench, continue to fascinate me. I am waiting with bated breath to see what his next rather peculiar fascination will be.

Paul Flynn Portrait Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab)
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T11. Will the Deputy Prime Minister extend his commendable enthusiasm to trusting the people and extending democracy by giving our people a right that is enjoyed in almost every other free country in the world—that is, will he allow them to vote on whether Charles, William or A. N. Other should be our next Head of State?

Nick Clegg Portrait The Deputy Prime Minister
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I am struggling enough simply to make the case for what I see as the plain vanilla, common-sense proposition that the people in the other place who make the laws of the land should be elected by those who have to obey the laws of the land. I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman’s proposition, but let us focus on the argument on the other place right now, as it has not yet been fully won.