Easter Recess: Government Update

Martin Docherty-Hughes Excerpts

Tuesday 19th April 2022 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. One of the systems that we are looking at, since he asks, is to see if we can mount some Brimstones on the back of technicals to see if that will do the job, but there are other options that I do not want to discuss.

[Martin Docherty-Hughes (West Dunbartonshire) (SNP)]

Let me first wish the Prime Minister good luck in their trip to India, where I am sure they will raise the ongoing arbitrary detention of Jagtar Singh Johal with Prime Minister Modi. That said, if the Prime Minister believes that they inadvertently misled the House based on evidence given at the time, surely the Prime Minister would then agree with me and with Alex Massie of The Spectator that such an offence rests on the proposition that the Prime Minister is an idiot?

[The Prime Minister]

I have spoken in good faith and, of course, continue to raise the case of his constituent.