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John Bercow

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Point of Order

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Tuesday 22nd May 2012

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Denis MacShane Portrait Mr Denis MacShane (Rotherham) (Lab)
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On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In Deputy Prime Minister’s questions, there was an exchange about something called a Fruit Ninja. Sir, I do not know whether you know what a Fruit Ninja is, or whether it is a parliamentary expression as defined by “Erskine May”, but, given that apparently the Prime Minister spends an awful lot of time with one, can we all be given one so that we can understand what he is up to?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Well, I plead ignorance myself. I am not familiar with the thing or practice concerned, but I am comforted by the knowledge that I share that ignorance with one so learned as the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane). Sadly, his intervention, whatever its merits, did not constitute a point of order.