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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I am sorry to come back at this stage, but the noble Lord, Lord Strathclyde, is sitting next to the noble Lord, Lord McNally, so we really need to have this sorted out. During the course of an interview on Monday 15 November on the Radio 4 ““Today”” programme, Lord McNally was asked a question, to which he replied: "““This reform will mean you will go to Parliament with at least half of your constituents having consciously voted for you””." Now, that is why my noble friend intervened. It is really important that this is sorted out, if Ministers from now on are to go on television and admit that. I would make the same point to the very articulate Mr Barclay, I think, who is part of the AV campaign, who also goes on television and repeats this 50-plus per cent argument. Can we be sure now that that is really at an end?