00:00 >>Mr Chris Bryant (Lewes) (Con)
00:23 I remind some of those who have been shouting the loudest on the other side of the House
00:28 that they personally voted on 13 May 1999 for a Conservative Opposition motion amending
00:36 a Liberal Democrat motion on an Opposition day. But far, far more importantly, surely,
00:42 Madam Deputy Speaker, is the fact that the behaviour of many hon. Members in the Chamber
00:48 today will have made a lot of people in this country very nervous about the way we conduct
00:54 our business when we are dealing with some of the most important matters of state. Most
00:59 significantly, it has been the tradition of the British parliamentary democracy that if
01:05 a Government lose control of their foreign policy, they have lost the confidence of the
01:11 House by definition, and consequently you have an immediate general election.
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