Bilderberg Conference Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Bilderberg Conference

Tony Baldry Excerpts
Monday 10th June 2013

(11 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. The Minister can resume his seat. No one in the House has a better sense of humour than the Minister, but I thought that he realised that I was gently teasing him.

Tony Baldry Portrait Sir Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con)
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Is it not rather cruel to oblige the Prime Minister to spend a weekend with Lord Mandelson of Foy and the shadow Chancellor? Did anyone at the Bilderberg conference go away any the wiser as to how the Labour party, if it were to win the next general election, would square the circle and manage to tackle the deficit?

Lord Clarke of Nottingham Portrait Mr Clarke
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I can only hope that some people did, but Chatham House rules prevent me from offering any further opinion on that question.