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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The noble Lord is making a fundamental mistake. Actually, I am sure that it is not a mistake as he knows that he is doing it. The phrase that he used was ““abuse of procedure””. The key abuse here is for a Government to bring in a portmanteau Bill on the constitution without any co-operation, or even any attempt to reach agreement between the various political parties, and without any attempt to consult, and then to try and drive it through without any concessions whatever. That is an abuse of this House, and it will destroy it. It will turn it into another House of Commons, and when they bring forward their Bill on the reform of the House of Lords, they will drive that even further. The noble Lord is destroying this House; let us have no illusions about it.