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Political Parties (Funding)

The hon. Gentleman, from a sedentary position, invites me to talk about the unions, but we did so and in fact reached a broad consensus about them. That was fine until June, but then something happened in central office—I do not know what it was; perhaps someone came in and said something—and then for some reason the attitude of the Conservative party's negotiators changed and we were not able to have the meeting in July. When we came back, it was clear that there would be no conclusion to the talks.