Parliamentary language?
A historic first, of sorts, can be found in column 494 of the House of Lords Hansard for last Friday - the 12th - in which the Labour peer and former minister Lord Gilbert expands the list of permissible parliamentary language in his speech on the Strategic Defence and Security Review.
Because this is a family blog, I won't repeat the Anglo-Saxon term he employed to describe the A400 M military transport aircraft, but it did produce uneasy titters around their Lordships House. But the editor of Hansard
And as Lord Gilbert observes, this is his second use of this particular term in the Upper House, although his first success in getting it quoted.
I'm Mark D'Arcy and I'll be writing about what goes on in the chambers and committee rooms at Westminster.
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