Council Tax (New Valuation Lists for England) Bill

I commend my hon. Friend for his research. He referred in passing to the decision in 1955. We know from the revelation in Harold Macmillan’s diaries that, at the first Cabinet meeting under Eden’s premiership, it was decided to set the election date before the forthcoming revaluation. Perhaps that explains why revaluation goes to the heart of the Conservative’s party difficulties, given that history repeated itself in the late 1980s.