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PMQs: Hattie opens up the Coalition’s Grand Canyon

By Paul Walter | Wed 2nd June 2010 - 3:58 pm

I feel as though Norris McWhirter (late of the Guinness Book of Records) ought to have been kneeling at the foot of the Speaker’s Chair with his stopwatch for this momentous Prime Minister’s Questions. There were several records or firsts being set. The first coalition PMQs ever, I would suggest (I doubt whether Winnie or Ramsay or our David held such events). The first with Liberal Democrats on the government benches. The first with a party sporting its second female leader (Margaret Beckett was acting Labour leader after John Smith died). And it’s 13 long years since we had …

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Posted in PMQs | Also tagged afghanistan, alan beith, david cameron, douglas carswell, gordon brown, harriet harman, john smith, margaret beckett and PMQs | 17 Comments

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