Westminster Diary Comment from Tarn Dalyell

摘要

All credit to any MP not afraid of being laughed at. Step forward Lembit Opik, Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire, whose famous grandfather Ernst pioneered the study of comets back in the 1930s. Opik secured an end-of-day adjournment debate on potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs) in March 1999. Unlike many similar debates, it achieved a result.