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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 November 2024

Debate

Football Governance Bill [HL]

Contribution

I want to concentrate specifically on the impact assessment. It is a justification for the Bill. I did a word search on “success”: there are 11 occasions in the impact assessment where it is used. We might think that that is positive, but the first line of the first sentence starts “Despite the commercial success”. How negative can you get? The word is next used in a repetition of the same phrase on page 9, which starts “Despite the commercial success”. Those are the only two occasions in the impact assessment where the word could even be described as used in a vaguely positive manner.

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