Member

I end with a reminder that, in May 1945, when Winston Churchill, the then Prime Minister, had quite a lot of other things on his mind, such as victory in Europe, it was his first instinct to write to the Earl Marshal and say let us bring back the State Opening of Parliament, which we had had to suspend through the entirety of the Second World War. When he did that, he was showing an instinctive respect for our traditional constitutional arrangements. I feel that we should do the same.