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Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 4 December 2024

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I have bit my tongue for the last hour as I have watched the charade from the Benches opposite, all using up their entire allocation while interrupting each other, repeating themselves and slapping each other on the back. This is meant to be a debate. I raise it when the noble Lord is standing up not because I disagree with the fact that they are serious about what they are arguing. But had Mr Sunak waited until November and not called his election in July, the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, would have been here with the same Bill in front of him, other than the issues that we heard have been changed so far—not the issues that we have been discussing for the last two hours or so. They would have been exactly the same. He would have been defending that Bill and now there is confected displeasure, if not outrage, with the way that the Bill is. Is that not hypocrisy?

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