Member

We want people across Britain to want this system, we want them to be part of it, and we want them to have the opportunity to shape it. This consultation is that opportunity. I look forward to the involvement of Members from across the House and of our constituents. I thank my honourable friend the Member for Makerfield, Josh Simons, for his work on this issue to date, and the Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office, my honourable friend the Member for Bury North, Mr Frith, for all the work that he will now do to make this a reality—for which I will take the credit if it goes well, and he the blame if it goes wrong. I commend this Statement to the House”.