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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

I apologise that I was not here at the commencement of these proceedings—I got caught short in the gymnasium. I put it to my hon. Friend that it scarcely lies in the mouths of the Conservatives to challenge the authority of the other place when they were happy to see that authority used to the greatest extent on these provisions just before the election when they vetoed their inclusion from the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010.