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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, it beggars description that when the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd of Berwick—who, in the immortal words of Bertie Wooster on Jeeves, was certainly fed on fish from an early age—and the president of the Queen’s Bench come up with a wording to satisfy a small and technical point, the Government then have to go away and try to do it better. If they have been given a Rolls-Royce, why can they not sit in it and drive it, as opposed to fiddling with it, trying to make it a four-wheel drive vehicle?