Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 January 1991.
The hon. Gentleman is clearly right about large islands, although the Greek islands would be a close analogy. I have already agreed that practical co-operation in the economic sphere is going forward well. Whether that will have a read-across into the political sphere only time can tell. There is not an automatic read-across. [Interruption.]