at the liaison committee, where chairs of committees can directly ask the prime minister questions, and he said no. my first question... my first question to the prime minister on wednesday will be, "will you now reconsider?" we need a full inquiry as to what has happened over the last couple of months, but also the last 20 years. and on the recall of parliament itself, i actually requested that a couple of days ago. i was so pleased to hear that this was happening, an opportunity for mp5, colleagues, to make their comments about this retreat and ask the government to reconsider. but i now learn that it will only be a one—line whip, there will not even be a vote on what has happened. at least with the iraq war, mps�* views could be monitored and registered for history to show what they thought. not in this case. and i'm deeply, deeply saddened that we're not taking this opportunity to fill the vacuum, to suggest a fresh coalition is formed before we see