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Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill [HL]

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord has spoken with some passion about constitutional change, about the 1980s and the 1990s, and about the relationship between different parties and constituent parts of the United Kingdom, but nowhere has he recognised—and he may not recognise, but I would like him to say it—that something has changed since the devolution Act. Members of Parliament in Scotland do not have a say in certain matters in their own constituencies but are fully able to vote on those same matters in other parts of the United Kingdom—in England in particular. Does he not recognise that there is a fundamental change between what Margaret Thatcher was talking about—what we were doing in government in the 1980s and the 1990s—and the situation that pertains today?