House of Lords Reform

I have copies of the right hon. Gentleman’s manifesto, the Conservatives’ manifesto and ours for the past three general elections. The phrases used in ours are ““directly elected””, ““predominantly elected”” and ““substantially elected””. Our last manifesto talked of a ““predominantly elected”” second Chamber. We have had a consistent view about what that meant in practice and we have come to a collective decision that we will vote for that. When people see how the votes go tomorrow, they will see that the Liberal Democrats vote for the position on which they stood for election.