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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

I intervene very briefly. When I am attending your Lordships' House, I stay in a club in my former constituency. In the 1930s, a Duke was slumbering in that club after lunch one day when he became conscious that a man and a woman had entered the room. He waited until they had left and then pressed a bell. The club servant arrived and said, ““You rang, your Grace?””. The Duke said, ““What was that?””. The club servant said, ““That, your Grace, was the club secretary and Her Majesty the Queen””. ““Thin end of the wedge””, said the Duke, shut his eyes and went to sleep again. I will not expand on the point at this hour of the night, but I wanted the noble Lord, Lord Harris of Haringey, to know that I have noticed, as the thin end of the wedge, that the City of London again creeps into his Amendment 50.