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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

My Lords, I was the one who introduced the word ““guillotine””. I did it yesterday at col. 16, and I did it to say that, happily, we never had to introduce the guillotine here because we operated the House, as the noble Lord, Lord Peston, indicated, in a way that was self-regulating and that worked perfectly well. I said it not because I thought that we should introduce a guillotine but because I thought that we should behave in a way that made it unnecessary.