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So what were Greening and Simmonds doing in the ‘Reasons Room’?

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Cabinet Secretary for International Development, Justine Greening and Mark Simmonds, junior Minister in the Foreign Office, famously ‘missed’ the vote on British armed intervention in Syria which their government lost on Thursday night.

Greening, reshuffled to her current post from Transport after the eye-wateringly expensive debacle of the West Coast Rail tender and Simmonds claim they had ‘ducked into’ the Reasons Room – just behind the chamber and from which they cold apparently not have failed to hear the Division Bell or the noise of the clerks hurrying about organising the business of the division.

They claim they Division Bell was not sounded – but officers insist it was, others heard it and it has been thoroughly tested since – found to be in perfect working order.

The pair claim that they had dived into the Reasons Room for ‘urgent discussions on Rwanda’.

The whispers we’re getting from the Westminster village suggest that the discussions in question may have been on ‘Ugandan affairs’ rather than on Rwanda.

Their engagement in such a discussion would certainly explain why they failed to hear the Division Bell and any of the accompanying hustle and bustle outside the door of the hilariously appropriately named ‘Reasons Room’.


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