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Foreign Affairs Committee

Debate between Joan Ryan and Angela Smith
Tuesday 19th March 2019

(5 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Joan Ryan Portrait Joan Ryan
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The hon. Gentleman has made that point before, and I could not disagree with him. In my view, this is entirely about Members who declared their independence just a couple of weeks ago, and no others.

Angela Smith Portrait Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge) (Ind)
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My right hon. Friend will remember the reforms introduced by an ex Member of the House for Cannock Chase, Tony Wright. Does she agree that this motion, and a whipped vote on it on the part of the Labour Benches, goes completely against the spirit of the Wright reforms, which we voted upon in the 2005-2010 Parliament?

Joan Ryan Portrait Joan Ryan
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right and I could not agree with her more. This undermines those reforms in total, and also calls into question the ability of Select Committees to work in a consensual, non-tribal, cross-party way to properly scrutinise the business of government.