Daylight Saving Bill

Adrian Sanders Excerpts

Friday 20th January 2012 Commons Chamber

[Jacob Rees-Mogg]

I am grateful for that invaluable intervention. I am sorry to say that I think that merely discussing this issue causes irritability among some hon. Members.

[Mr Adrian Sanders (Torbay) (LD)]

A simple look at any map reveals that the whole of Portugal is far to the west of the United Kingdom. Were the United Kingdom on the same degree of longitude, I should be with the hon. Gentleman, but it is not, and therefore I am not.

[Jacob Rees-Mogg]

That brings me to amendment 23, which requires the consultation to include representatives from England—in brackets, Somerset—Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.