Skinner expelled
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Your support makes all the difference.Betty Boothroyd, the first female Speaker of the House of Commons, chalked up another personal first yesterday when she ordered an MP out of the chamber. The one-day expulsion was anything but a first for Dennis Skinner.
The Labour MP for Bolsover called John Gummer, the Minister of Agriculture, 'this little squirt of a minister'. Despite repeated appeals from Miss Boothroyd, Mr Skinner refused to withdraw the description, insisting: 'That's how I picture him.'
The incident came after Mr Skinner called for a public inquiry into what he said was the high level of dioxins in agricultural land in his constituency.
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