Kevin Brennan
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(5 years, 11 months ago)
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Mr Speaker
I am not a member of the Liaison Committee. I will look at the situation on a case-by-case basis. If the circumstance arises, I shall make an appropriate judgment. I think we should leave it there. May I very gently say to the hon. Lady that the late Lord Whitelaw was so shrewd when he said that he personally preferred to cross bridges only when he came to them?
Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In my 17 years in the House, including two years as a Government Whip, I found out one thing, which is that if Members act as a Whip’s lickspittle, they get very little respect from other Members of the House—even, ultimately, from their own Whips.
Mr Speaker
The hon. Gentleman has made his own point in his own way with considerable force and alacrity. I am not going to accuse anybody of being—