Meet Laurel and Hardy

The Broadband fiasco is overdue for action. In my opinion CDS (Connecting Devon and Somerset) has done a second rate job of getting the rural parts wired up. I want a full debate in the House and yesterday in these exchanges with the Leader of the House I think we may be getting somewhere. John Hart is Leader of Devon County Council, Peter Doyle is from the misnamed body “Connecting Devon and Somerset”

“May we have a debate in this place so that we can be truly obnoxious and rude about the debacle of connecting Devon and Somerset with broadband? It has been an absolute fiasco. The two people who have caused the most trouble—the Laurel and Hardy of this entire affair—are John Hart and Peter Doyle. It is beyond a joke: they are just not connecting Devon and Somerset. May we have a chance to vent our spleen in ​this place to make sure they clearly get the message that they should just go and should let someone who can actually connect Devon and Somerset get on with it

• Chris Grayling, Leader of the House: My Hon. Friend makes his point very succinctly, as is his customary style when he faces challenges in his constituency. He brings a certain panache to his role as the Member of Parliament for Bridgwater and West Somerset, and I commend him for it.“