Given that the Prime Minister's senior adviser was kept abreast of progress on the Power DirecTv issue and that we now know that the government orders are illegal because they have a retroactive effect, how can the Prime Minister continue to maintain that the usual transparent procedure was followed in the case of Power DirecTv and that his son-in-law's interests did not carry inordinate weight in the matter?
In the House of Commons on June 7th, 1995. See this statement in context.