Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I stand by the decision of the person occupying the chair at the time to allow this suspension motion to proceed. It is of the A to Z that the Minister for Defence knows much about and the compromise there is that it takes four minutes to read and that is four minutes of a speech. I understand that the Leader of the House will have some grievance about the fact that he cannot move that the member be no longer heard until after that point, but I think that that is the accommodation. I agree with him that it would assist the House if motions were truncated, but on this occasion we have got this far.

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