Harry Jenkins (Speaker) Share this | Hansard source

Order! I simply say to the Leader of the House I was more concerned about the application of standing order 100 to the question rather than whether it was a supplementary question or not. I can only say that—through generations of speakership—leaders of the opposition, as has been given to prime ministers, have been given leeway but that leeway and the way in which in this case the standing orders that apply to the rules for the questions are put in place should not be expected on all occasions. But I allow the question on this occasion.

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