Tragedy and a Constitutional Crisis

1985 to 1988

three mentions

over three years

My complaint about the Secretary of State is that he is creating a Tragedy and a Constitutional Crisis that he, this Government and the Department of the Environment will live to regret until the end of time.

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Mr. Brian Sedgemore - Feb. 25, 1985

The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore), that well-known exponent of understatement, declared in the debate:The Secretary of State is creating a Tragedy and a Constitutional Crisis that he, this Government and the Department of the Environment will live to regret till the end of time".

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Mr. Waldegrave - Feb. 25, 1986

Then, the hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore), who is not in the House at the moment, said:the Secretary of State … is creating a Tragedy and a Constitutional Crisis that he, this Government and the Department of the Environment will live to regret till the end of time".

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The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Nicholas Ridley) - Feb. 18, 1988