Member

The House of Lords had the only writ that was not under prime ministerial control. It was a Privy Council oath from the Front Bench, in this House and in the Commons. The point about a Privy Council oath—yes, they are described as binding in honour—is that, and we were assured of this, it went across Parliaments. Parliament cannot bind a successive Parliament, but we were told that a Privy Council oath would, because all the privy counsellors, and there are quite a lot of them, should be bound by that oath from the Front Bench.