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Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Public Expenditure (17 Jun 2009) has video

Menzies Campbell: The Secretary of State will be well aware of the sterile exchanges in recent days about the future of public expenditure in the United Kingdom. Will he promise to put aside the smoke and mirrors and to level with the people of Scotland about the consequences for public expenditure of the inevitable and necessary efforts to reduce record deficits?

Orders of the Day — European Communities (Amendment) Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: [Sir Alan Haselhurst in the Chair] — Clause 1 — Incorporation of provisions of the Treaty of Nice (17 Jul 2001)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...his own party. However, I do not want to intrude on private grief: these matters are ones that the Conservatives will have to resolve themselves, and whoever emerges through the pall of white smoke to become the leader of the party will have to deal with them. Let me say a word or two about enhanced co-operation. The Nice treaty endeavours to free up procedures first established at...

Clause 89: Appointment and Removal of Judges (4 Mar 1998)

Mr Menzies Campbell: ...it is subject to the scrutiny of the public or anyone other than the Lord Advocate and the Secretary of State for Scotland. The mystique ought to be removed. There is more than a hint of the white smoke emerging—I think that it is from the Sistine chapel, although I cannot claim any great expertise in such matters—from the chimneys of Parliament house in the High street in...