Parliament (Participation of Members of the House of Commons) Bill [HL]

My Lords, yes. But in the next government two might be enough. You never know. As regards the Liberal Democrats, I was amazed at the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan. He said that he was not quite in touch with views in England. We can forgive him for that as he comes from the most remote part of Scotland, but I can assure him that views in England are much more strident than he thinks. He should be aware that certain distinguished members of his party support my Bill—for instance, Simon Hughes and Menzies Campbell support this measure. Not for the first time, the noble Lord is slightly out of touch with the views of the party he once led. The noble Earl, Lord Mar and Kellie, quite openly, as I understood it, referred to an independent Scotland, which was beautifully described as the ““Stuart solution””. I had not heard it in quite those terms before.