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London Local Authorities Bill [Lords]

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. There is a risk that an over-zealous tatterdemalion—I have finally used the word—who was keen to impress his local authority superiors might be driven down that road and could photograph the vehicle and take action under this provision, should it pass into law. The other, more fundamental, point about the clause is that it might prevent young entrepreneurs setting out to make a living. I see car salesmen not as street traders but as entrepreneurs. One of the reasons I came into politics was that I wanted to encourage people to become entrepreneurs, to believe in the free market and to sell their goods and be buyers and sellers. We do not want a situation in which local government sticks its nose into every aspect of people's lives.