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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

I, too, have sat on the government Front Bench in the sort of role filled by the noble Lord, Lord Tunnicliffe, and I have huge sympathy for him. I immediately forgive him for his one and only very modest error. But there is a lesson to be learnt. The difficulty of putting major legislation through in this way, as we have been doing, opens the way for inadvertent errors of this kind and is no doubt one lesson that will be learnt for the future.