Clause 9
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
4:00 pm
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, particularly as he gave me a slightly back-handed compliment a while ago. He is making an entirely sensible set of remarks. Does not he remember that, even in those days of intervening revolutions, with Boxer bonds or Chinese sovereign debt, countries that wished to re-borrow on the world market had to be seen to make some effort before they could restore their credibility? Although one is business, or possibly politics, and the other is domestic, is that not a principle worth sustaining?