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Bribery Bill [Lords]

As I am about to explain, the Government intend to seek to amend the clause, because it will create a hybrid and very uncertain set of authorisations. I hope that I can convince the hon. and learned Gentleman and the House that not only is it not necessary, but it is not desirable. I should say to him that when I examined it my starting point—my default position, as it were—was to see whether we could accommodate it. Why would that not be my position because, particularly at this stage of a Parliament, I am not picking fights unnecessarily?