Member

The noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer of Thoroton, has raised the issue of legitimacy. Specifically in relation to Amendment 105, given that your Lordships’ House is so desperately unrepresentative not just of disabled people but particularly of people with lifelong congenital conditions, perhaps the noble and learned Lord could explain in his closing remarks why on earth any non-disabled Member of this House would presume that, as a law-making body, it has the authority or the credibility, or indeed the legitimacy, to reject this amendment. It has none, and I remind your Lordships’ House that not one—not one—organisation of or for disabled people supports this Bill.