§ Mr. DalyellTo ask the Prime Minister whether it was with her authority that Mr. Charles Powell participated at a recent dinner with Mr. Aspinall, Sir James Goldsmith, the hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Clark) and Conrad Black, to discuss the attitude ofThe Daily Telegraph towards her position as leader of the 930W Conservative party; and what consequences such participation by a civil servant has for the Armstrong guidelines on the role of civil servants.
§ The Prime MinisterThe circumstances are not as the hon. Member describes them, and the issues in his question do not arise. The way in which the hon. Member attempts to vilify individual civil servants is deplorable.