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Business of the House

Given that the Leader of the House expects us to be grovellingly grateful that he has finally consented to give us a debate on police restructuring, albeit in the last day or two before the Christmas recess, why is he afraid of having a substantive vote? Is it because he realises that it will expose yet again that a large number, if not a majority, of his Back Benchers are almost certainly against that absurd and dangerous proposal? Will he use his limited ingenuity to find some way even now of giving us a substantive vote on the issue on the Floor of the House, so that the Government can know, in numbers, how wrong they have got it?