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Royal Marriages and Succession to the Crown (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill

I accept the hon. Gentleman's point, although I do not always believe everything I hear on the BBC. My point is that the Government do not always do what they say they will do. I am perfectly content, however, to accept for the time being that on this occasion they will. Time will tell; one of us will be proved right, and we do not know who. This is major constitutional stuff, as Lord Falconer made particularly clear in the House of Lords debate. He said:""To bring about changes to the law would be a complex and controversial undertaking, raising major constitutional issues which would involve the amendment or repeal of a number of pieces of related legislation."—[Official Report, House of Lords, 14 January 2005; Vol. 668, c. 510.]" In an intervention, I mentioned the legislation that Lord Falconer claimed would need to be amended.