Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:15 pm on 22 January 1997.
Will not the whole process of the bilateral discussions be improved and strengthened, given that the Governments of both countries have perhaps been dragging their feet in terms of the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines? Will not attention be focused on the process in a way that it may not have been so far? That is why we have been negotiating, or attempting to negotiate, for so long.