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European Union (Amendment) Bill

It is possible for other noble Lords to move amendments but I do not intend to do so on this occasion. I am surprised, however, because I thought that we were all consulting one another on the process of these debates and keeping in touch. There is no point in involving the Liberal Democrats because they have no amendments. However, the rest of us are keeping in touch on timing and the order in which we take these matters, but no one informed me that we were going to leave out today the whole question of borders and asylum. I trust that we may come back to it on Report. The noble Lord, Lord Lamont, is urging me to move these amendments; he is, of course, free to do so himself. This slightly alters the understandings that we have tried to come to in order to finish by 11 o’clock tonight at the end of Amendment No. 53 or Amendment No. 57—I hope that we get there—and it may change the way that some of us behave in future.