Commencement

Part of Orders of the Day — Wales Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 19 April 1978.

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Photo of Mr Bruce Douglas-Mann Mr Bruce Douglas-Mann , Merton Mitcham and Morden 12:00, 19 April 1978

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that many of us who have expressed reservations about this Bill are not anti-devolutionist? Speaking for myself and for at least some of my colleagues, I can say that we are perfectly prepared to accept that if the Scottish people or the Welsh people are so foolish as to wish to saddle themselves with Assemblies of this kind, it is right for them to do so. But we wish to be quite sure that there are enough of them who really wish to rush into this potential disaster before we go ahead with it.