Disqualification from Ministerial Office in United Kingdom

Part of Orders of the Day — Disqualifications Bill – in the House of Commons at 3:45 pm on 25 January 2000.

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Photo of Mike O'Brien Mike O'Brien Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Home Office 3:45, 25 January 2000

I will not go into my family history but deal with the constitution and the law. I do not intend to reply at length in rebuttal because I have dealt with most of the issues in my speech and in interventions.

I have been trying to follow the logic of the hon. Gentleman's argument about the nation. I take it that he would not argue that the concept of the Irish nation put forward by Parnell is the same as that put forward by the Ulster Unionists today.