[Un-alloted half-day] — Dissolution of Parliament

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 4:26 pm on 10 June 2009.

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Photo of Peter Hain Peter Hain The Secretary of State for Wales 4:26, 10 June 2009

I could not agree more, which is why we need to lance the boil now, and why we need this Parliament, on a cross-party basis, to sort this out here and now. Then, within a year, we can have an election to decide who should take the country forward—not how we should reform parliamentary expenses, because that will have been done, but who should take us forward to meet the big challenges of the global economic crisis, of climate change and all the other issues before us.