Richard Ottaway, the member of parliament for Coulsden, was taken aback by Meredith's funeral at Croydon Minster.
It comes ahead of a bill, tabled by Richard Ottaway MP, which would see licensing for scrap metal dealers.
The Scrap Metal Dealers Bill aims to reform the industry and tackle what Mr Ottaway calls "outdated legislation" from 1964.
Or do you regard it as especially strong or conciliatory, Marina Ottaway?
Although Mr Ottaway is reluctant to write the prince's political obituary, this is a story with clear elements of decline and fall.
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Members of the Bancroft and Ottaway families, which between them own a majority of Dow Jones's voting stock, have come out against Mr Murdoch's offer.
Ms. OTTAWAY: Well, there is definitely an interest in regional diplomacy.
Since this was an issue in the November election, Marina Ottaway?
Jim Ottaway's comment on News Corp. appearing to win Dow Jones.
Topping the bill is the Conservative Richard Ottaway's Scrap Metal Dealers Bill, which tightens the regulations to make it harder for thieves to sell on looted metal.
And I'd like to hear from both of you starting with Marina Ottaway, a little reality check here, from what you see happening in the war in Iraq.
Conservative MP Richard Ottaway, who is chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, questioned whether the US president ought to "interfere in the operations of an international overseas company".
In a long, rambling and self-justificatory late-night interview with Mr Ottaway soon after, Prince Bandar unburdened himself, trying vainly to defend the kingdom against a new army of detractors.
ECONOMIST: Prince Bandar bin Sultan was an envoy like no other
But as a study of the larger-than-life figure who served as broker of the strange, complex and conflicted marriage between America and Arabia, Mr Ottaway's work is surely definitive.
ECONOMIST: Prince Bandar bin Sultan was an envoy like no other
Mr Ottaway's book is not, strictly speaking, a biography.
ECONOMIST: Prince Bandar bin Sultan was an envoy like no other
Marina Ottaway, do you get some sense that in some way there's a revised policy that there's something more than a new strategy in increasing numbers of troops or deploying them differently?
"There are no specifics in the speech and Arab countries are looking for specifics at this point, " said Marina Ottaway, director of the Middle East program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The new measures - which will include a halt to scrap being sold for cash - come ahead of a bill tabled by Richard Ottaway MP which is making its way through parliament.
Mr. Ottaway, in his letter, also asked for clarification of what relationship Mr. Heywood had with the British Consulate-General in Chongqing, where Mr. Heywood was found dead, or the British Embassy in Beijing.
Ms. MARINA OTTAWAY (Director, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): I don't think very much because there is agreement that there cannot be a military solution or a purely military solution to the situation in Iraq.
For the record, that group comprised Laura Sandys, Margot James, Stephen Dorrell, Ben Gummer, Ben Wallace, Richard Ottaway, Bob Walter, Robert Buckland, Neil Carmichael, Caroline Spelman, Nicholas Soames, Peter Luff, Jane Ellison, Sir Malcolm Rifkind, and Kris Hopkins.
Fellow Conservative Richard Ottaway, who is chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the comments were a "bit unexpected" and "the mood of the nation" was in favour of holding a referendum at some point in the future.
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In his letter, written in March but only now published, the chair of the Commons committee, Conservative MP Richard Ottaway, said he was concerned that the UK was adopting a course of action towards the embargo which "is out of step" with its EU partners.
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