Member

As for Amendment 68, on local connection, in the name of my noble friends, it must be right that we support local people, local residents, local family connections, local employment, family associations and service in His Majesty’s Armed Forces. There was a time when this would have been a policy adopted by any Labour politician at a local level. When I was a councillor in a London borough, it would not have been an alien idea to have a local connection. In fact, when I was on the housing committee in the London Borough of Ealing, we had a very high score for those who had a local connection.