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Health Bill

My Lords, I am following the noble Earl’s argument very closely and with enormous interest. This is the first admission from the Opposition Front Bench that this law is permanent and is not up for amendment if by any chance there were a change of government at the next election, or the one after. Is the noble Earl saying that he now accepts, possibly with our votes earlier here today, that this law is here permanently and will not be amended? If so, I welcome that, and it presumably underlines the logic of what he is saying about the need for signs not to be there for ever.