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Yet the shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster claims this Bill is a Cromwellian measure. Was it not Oliver Cromwell who came into the Chamber of our predecessors and shut it down? That is not what is happening here today. Today, we are following through on a democratic process, consulting the people, and bringing through a full Act of Parliament in both this and the other place. I will tell the hon. Gentleman something that is far more Cromwellian: only a few years ago, a Conservative Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, forced our late Queen to prorogue Parliament. That was much more Cromwellian than anything we are doing today.