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Government of Wales Bill

With respect, I think people would say that any Government organisation that sets a bar of two thirds to change Standing Orders does so to make such a change difficult. The right hon. Gentleman has many years of experience and knows perfectly well that, just as turkeys would not vote for Christmas, the Labour party in the Welsh Assembly will not vote for a system that would make it harder for its Members to have a majority in Committees. The right hon. Gentleman said that members of the public have talked about winners and losers, but they will say that it is grossly unfair that the Labour party can be in a minority in the Welsh Assembly while its Members are in a majority on all the Assembly’s Committees. That is gerrymandering. It is rigging, and not even someone with the right hon. Gentleman’s many years in the House could pretend anything else.