Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 2 April 2008.
May I begin by adding my condolences over the soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq?
It was reported earlier this week that Her Majesty the Queen had cancelled her diamond wedding celebrations because it was judged inappropriate to engage in extravagance at a time of economic gloom and recession. Does the Leader of the House share my view that that demonstrates Her Majesty's unerring instinct for the public mood, or do the Government think that she was overreacting?