Is not this a highly disreputable matter? Is the Prime Minister aware that on Monday the Secretary of State for Defence told the House, in response to a question from me, that no agreement was reached and that negotiations were going on with several other Governments besides the British Government? Is it not absolutely clear that in this case the Government caused one of their officials to make a false statement to the Press—[HON. MEMBERS: "Oh."]—and that the whole of this story has arisen not out of the commercial interests of this country but entirely out of a desire on the part of the Prime Minister to have General Franco as his running mate in the election?