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Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

My Lords, we are here as a revising Chamber. This Bill does things that are different and it works in a different way. I explained that to the noble Lord at Second Reading and I explained it in the detailed correspondence that I sent out to all noble Lords involved in that debate. I ask this House simply this question: do noble Lords want to join those bodies that are a progressive force in this country and which want to institute sensible change and which deal with things in a pragmatic way? The noble Lord, Lord Peyton, said that in his view we had had a change of heart, as it were, and that somehow I was satanic in my efforts to bring about greater measures of deregulation. I do not care whether I am Satan or not; I should like to get on with this Bill and make some changes that are important to this country.