Howell's birthday chop
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GOVERNMENT had a comfortable majority on Monday this ;lc when the Transport Bill was guillotined to shorten debate, on eve of Transport Secretary David Howell's 47th birthday.
s a result the Committee of MPs considering the Bill still have to iplete their work by Tuesday next week and a further day will be ted in the Commons for the Bill to complete its passage.
efending the decision, Mr Howell pointed out that the committee already spent 80 hours debating the Bill and was still only :ussing the second clause.
eferring to the long speeches by Opposition MPs, he said that in speech a Labour MP had managed to refer to journeys to the on, Manchuria, the film industry and Maltese breast stroke, all of eh had been in order to discuss under the Bill.