Part of Scotland Bill – in the House of Lords at 4:00 pm on 24 April 2012.
I am most grateful to the noble Lord for pointing out my role as opposition while in government. Is it not precisely because his party used that kind of language-of people not having a mandate in one part of the United Kingdom-that the Labour Party now finds itself wiped out by the nationalists in Scotland? It was a very foolish thing to do and by doing so as unionists the Labour Party undermined its own position.