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One of the three whom the principal and the board of management targeted, Ben McGowan, was not a trade union official, although he had been in years gone by.
That would be a fair compromise. This is an official meeting, which will be recorded in the Official Report, so we will be able to refer to our discussion and so clarify that we had the shortest time scale in mind, rather than the longest.
We can take the view that such a discussion need not be held in private—in the sense that the public is not present—but we could tell the official reporters that they do not need to record it as part of the Official Report.