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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

I am saddened to see the hon. Gentleman, who is a distinguished lawyer and an intelligent man, falling into the same trap of getting his research from the Daily Mail. It has never been part of Government policy to introduce a national motto. The Government have committed to seeing whether we should have a statement of values, and we will do so through a series of deliberative events where the British people will decide. The party that the hon. Member for Cambridge represents is in favour of having such deliberative events and of a constitutional convention based on exactly the same deliberative principles in relation to the statement of values. I shall return to this matter later, because the hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield mentioned a letter of mine earlier, and I want to share it with the House.