Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill — Committee (9th Day) (Continued)

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 9:00 pm on 17 January 2011.

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Photo of Lord Soley Lord Soley Labour 9:00, 17 January 2011

That is right. It is not just Labour Members in the other place but Conservative Members too who wrote to us asking us to cover these matters in our debates in the House of Lords, because they were not covered in the House of Commons as they should be.

I end with a quote from Vince Cable, who, in an eavesdropped conversation-and in my view the journalists have something to answer for, but it is out so it must be said-stated that there was a real danger of the Government becoming Maoist in their tendencies. That is right. There is a foolish rush of power-perhaps of power to the head-which is driving them forward.