Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 2:19 am on 14 March 1991.
Mark Fisher
, Stoke-on-Trent Central
2:19,
14 March 1991
The Minister should reconsider his incitement to the House to go along the lines of Andrew Marvell. He will know that the rest of the poem is about fornication, or seduction leading to fornication. I am not sure that the House should indulge in that poem, if that is what he meant
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