Member

In all that has been said here tonight, the one person who has put their finger on the issue, as he often does, is my noble friend Lord Dodds. My noble friend made it very clear: you do not take the Government at their word. It was “They do, and then we do” but, unfortunately, that tradition was departed from. Some at that time jumped headlong into it as others of us stood and said, “Hold on, stand back here a moment. The Government have no intention of doing what they say they are going to do”.