I take back that cheap shot against Tony Blair—it was perhaps unnecessary—and I entirely agree with the hon. Gentleman. Over the centuries, we have established a pretty good system. I think we are the only country in Europe never to have been a police state or had a police state imposed on it. We should be pretty proud of our slow constitutional growth.
Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011
Proceeding contribution from
Edward Leigh
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Thursday, 23 October 2014.
It occurred during Backbench debate on Repeal of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
586 c1071 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2019-11-18 10:20:06 +0000
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-10-23/14102366000020
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-10-23/14102366000020
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-10-23/14102366000020