Member

In conclusion, and I say this with an element of hope—perhaps more so than experience—I urge the noble and learned Lord, when he responds to these amendments, to try to adopt a very positive approach to them. I think on the earlier group he said that he does not see his role model as Stonewall Jackson, who seems to be the American Civil War general of the day. He is right in adopting that approach. Stonewall Jackson is not a good role model, not simply because he died at the age of 39 but because his demise was brought about by being inadvertently shot by his own troops—a fate that I am sure none of us hope befalls the noble and learned Lord. I look forward to a positive embracing of these important amendments. With that, I beg to move Amendment 30.