Member

In a recent speech on the Bill, the noble Lord Grocott used the word “gestating” to describe the reforms he tried to introduce over the last 30 years or so. That is the right word: the opponents of these changes knew in the 1990s that they had lost the argument and that the best they could do was to slow down the inevitable—bog down reforms with procedure and compromise. I agree with Lord Grocott that almost 30 years of gestation is far too long for anyone.