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Draft Financial Services Bill (Joint Committee)

I shall therefore humbly ignore my hon. Friend's intervention and conclude my remarks. As guardians of our democracy, albeit within the confines of the gentlemen's club and the usual channels, and despite the weaknesses imposed upon us by the lack of modernisation, it is our responsibility and duty to expose flawed proposals, such as how the Government have unnaturally put together this unrepresentative and biased group without allowing us a debate that is timetabled in a proper and normal way. It is the Government's responsibility to get that right, and I implore them to do so in future to save us having to object repeatedly at 10 o'clock at night to the flawed logic and bad politics that they have had to use—we all appreciate that it is a difficult time for the coalition—in order to try to hold these two ramshackle coalition partners together.