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How Do You Convince Opposition Members About Policy Matters?
I have only experience of my own committee because both as Foreign Secretary and as EAM, I've dealt with them. The way I deal with them is, we take something very topical and then we would have again a presenter. Often, it would be the Foreign Secretaries. Could be some other Secretary, normally not. Then, I open it and encourage everybody to have the say. And then, what would happen is, in some cases, the presenter may respond, but I would, as a minister, sort of respond to every one of the commits, which are made by all members. So, my intent of doing that is really one to underline to them that we take them