Heathcoat-Amory

In one astonishing scene, when the distinguished former Tory cabinet minister David Heathcoat-Amory approached the Speaker's assistants to express disappointment that he hadn't been called to speak during a debate on one of his specialist topics, he was subjected to a bizarre rant, with the Speaker even jabbing his finger at him.

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Read this article by former Obama supporter Edward Heathcoat-Amory and maybe you will understand why so many people including myself have a very nasty feeling about Barack Obama.

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Most of the amendments are pretty predictable: they either come from usual backbench suspects Heathcoat-Amory, Cash, Shepherd or from the Tory front bench.

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We've absolutely no idea what Heathcoat-Amory said.

Is Mr Speaker Losing It? 2007

Yesterday, John Reid had just reached the end of a PNQ on the Control Orders row when the Speaker jumped up and started yelling at Heathcoat-Amory.

Is Mr Speaker Losing It? 2007

Today Hansard records what he said but it does not catch the vicious nature of his remarks nor the fact that he jabbed his finger repeatedly at Heathcoat-Amory and turned bright red in the face.

Is Mr Speaker Losing It? 2007

Heathcoat-Amory may be the sort of upper-class Tory Martin hates but he is an intelligent, authoritative man.

Is Mr Speaker Losing It? 2007

Heathcoat-Amory's "sin" was to have wandered up to the Speaker's clerk and gently express disappointment that he had not been called in the Control Orders debate or in the previous deay's discussion about nuclear power Heathcoat-Amory, as a former Energy Minister, would have been a voice worth hearing on that.

Is Mr Speaker Losing It? 2007

Conservative Andrew MacKay, who stood down after it emerged he had registered his MP wife's second home as his main address, also received the full £65,000, along with David Heathcoat-Amory, who claimed for 550 sacks of horse manure on his expenses.

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Clarke had left the Commons chamber by the time Heathcoat-Amory said: "We are unable to make changes because they are entrenched in superior EU law."

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