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Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

My Lords, for the reasons that I explained. If we did that in great detail now, there are too many people who would say, ““Thanks very much; there is direct rule and there is a plan B; we do not need an Assembly. Why bother?””. We believe the best option is an Assembly in Northern Ireland with Northern Ireland politicians. I repeat, finally, that whatever may have been said about it, the Prime Minister did not have a plan B on that day and there is no plan B today. We have got plan A, and that is what we are concentrating on.