Committee (5th Day)

Part of Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill – in the House of Lords at 4:00 pm on 15 December 2010.

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Photo of Lord Falconer of Thoroton Lord Falconer of Thoroton Shadow Spokesperson (Justice) 4:00, 15 December 2010

If the noble Lord is saying to me, "In principle I agree about the problem that you have identified, so let's talk about how we solve it"-the problem being that no political party should be allowed to use its political broadcast to promote or demote any of the electoral systems at issue-I am more than happy to wait until Report stage. The noble Lord read out parts of his brief in a jokey manner, but that gave him complete room to say, "No, we are not going to make any changes". Therefore, I need something a little more than what he said. I need an indication that in principle he accepts the broad problem that we have identified.