Points of Order

Douglas Ross Excerpts

Tuesday 12th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Gentleman has achieved his own salvation. He has put that on the record, and he can circulate it to media outlets in his constituency and elsewhere. Moreover, if he continues to be the eager beaver that he has always been thus far in his membership of the House, I dare say he will beetle into the Chamber for business questions on Thursday morning and leap to his feet to seek a debate or a governmental statement on that very matter. He is many things, but he is not lacking indefatigability, and he is not knowingly understated.

[Douglas Ross (Moray) (Con)]

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. The hon. Member for Inverness has just—

[Drew Hendry]

Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey.

[Douglas Ross]

The hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Drew Hendry) has just informed the House that all 35 SNP Members wanted to speak in the debate and were aware that there were 90 minutes available. What kind of debate do you think we would have procedurally if each Member had 30 seconds to speak, as the SNP was trying to impose on us?

[Mr Speaker]

It would be a debate characterised by extraordinarily short speeches—that is true, but that too, though an interesting reflection from the hon. Gentleman, is not a point of order.