UK’s Withdrawal from the European Union

Stewart Hosie Excerpts

Wednesday 13th March 2019 Commons Chamber

[Michael Gove]

No. I think we have had more than enough from the collection of circus acts of the Scottish National party.

[Stewart Hosie (Dundee East) (SNP)]

On a point of order, Mr Speaker.

[Mr Speaker]

The hon. Gentleman is a distinguished member of the House of Commons Commission, and I therefore hope that his point of order is authentic and genuine.

[Stewart Hosie]

It is as authentic as almost every else’s. Mr Speaker, the Secretary of State just said that we know what the SNP is, what it believes and what its positions are; how can he know that if he refuses to engage in debate, and instead simply behaves like a little primary school bully, refusing to take proper engagement and hiding behind the big boys who are sitting behind him?

[Mr Speaker]

Perhaps the Secretary of State is invested with psychic powers—I have no way of knowing—but I am bound to say to the hon. Gentleman that in my dealings with the Secretary of State, I have never regarded him in any way as a bully. He is sometimes insistent upon his point of view, but I must say that I have never found him remotely pressurising. Dealing with him is not difficult at all.