Of course, throughout the early months, when the Prime Minister rightly said that there were considerable interdepartmental discussions and even meetings, the scale of the Westland Crisis was hardly perceived.

The Westland Crisis has helicoptered him back to the Scottish Office.

Our failure to produce a sensible helicopter policy has led directly to the Westland Crisis through which we have all been living.

Will my hon. Friend accept that the events of this morning at the extraordinary general meeting made it clear, as never before, that some people seem to be interested only in wrecking a solution to the Westland Crisis?

Their Cabinet was nearly blown apart by splits on the Westland Crisis.

It was then a matter of frustration to me that I could never get "Westland" into the problem of the so-called Westland Crisis.

At this late hour to haul away the plank when so much effort has been made in the House would be an obscenity and an outrage, and it would be remembered at least by Cornish people a great deal longer even, I suspect, than the Westland Crisis, the opening subject matter of the debate.

I shall do so, wishing now, as I wished throughout the Westland Crisis, that the probity of the Government and the future of Westland could be separated.

All hon. Members know that part of the reason for the Westland Crisis last year was the failure of the Ministry of Defence to order more helicopters soon enough.

This time last year the House was in the throes of the Westland Crisis.

Mr. Dalyell asked the Prime Minister if she will place in the Library a transcript of the television interview on Sunday 7 June with Mr. David Frost in which she referred to the Westland Crisis.

asked the Prime Minister if she will place in the Library a transcript of the television interview on Sunday 7 June with Mr. David Frost in which she referred to the Westland Crisis.

Reference has been made to the Westland Crisis, when the previous Prime Minister tried to pin the blame on one of her colleagues.