Sustainable Communities Bill

Let me try to reassure the hon. Lady about what she has described as the narrative, and about the consequential actions. I strongly agree with her point about raised expectations, but may I put another point into the pot? She says that she is scared of mushy compromise, and we are all scared of that. However, she is also a proponent of the view that what happens in Cornwall is different from what happens in, say, West Dorset. I do not want mushy compromise to take away the important point the Bill’s promoter made: if one is a localist, one accepts differences.