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Parliamentary Standards Bill

Good, my Lords, she is. Well done. The noble Baroness has to get up and say, "I have listened to very distinguished gentleman from all sides of the House"—and ladies, because I am not being sexist. I do not want to be reported to Harriet Harman. She should get up and say, "I have listened. The case for agreeing with what the noble Lord, Lord Norton of Louth, proposes is overwhelming. I am going to go back to the Prime Minister and say, ‘First Lord of the Treasury, if you want real trouble with the House of Lords this is what you will get. If you want a little co-operation on something which is pretty awful anyway, at least you'll get it if I can do this’". The noble Baroness should give an undertaking to say that and then do it, and if she gets the sack, we will all buy her a pension. It is as simple as that.