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POINT OF ORDER – REFUSING TO TAKE INTERVENTIONS - 18 November 2025

POINT OF ORDER – REFUSING TO TAKE INTERVENTIONS - 18 November 2025

Sir Julian Lewis: On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Ms Nusrat Ghani): Is it absolutely relevant right now?]

Sir Julian Lewis: Yes, Madam Deputy Speaker. Can you tell me how, within the rules of order, I can draw attention to the way in which the junior Minister, in summing up and purportedly taking part in the debate that has just ended, refused to take any interventions for lack of time, yet finished his speech with two minutes left? Can you say anything that might encourage a Government with an unhealthily large majority to enter into the spirit of real debate? [Interruption.]

[Madam Deputy Speaker: Order. I will decide whether it is a point of order. I do not need interventions from the Front Bench.

Sir Julian Lewis, you are a Member of astounding experience, and you know better than most that that is most definitely not a point of order. It is up to the Member speaking whether they wish to accept or decline an intervention, and the Minister declined yours most positively.]