Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

The difficulty of the precedents of this House is that the matter which was contained in the preamble in the run-up to other things that people might think are a specific question is open to response. The start of the question referred to the statement of the Prime Minister yesterday and referred to the mention of ‘deficit’ in that statement. In that regard, if the Prime Minister is relating his response to that aspect, based on the precedents of this House it is in order.

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