Political Parties and Elections Bill

In view of what has been said, I support the second two amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Henley. Recklessness is a much more difficult thing to prove than whether somebody knew something or not. I suggest that recklessness is often in the eye of the beholder. Secondly, Amendment 88, if carried, would certainly have avoided the problems to which I referred at Second Reading and in Committee yesterday of an innocent mistake ending up in court on appeal and even eventually going to the High Court at vast expense to the taxpayer and the recipient political party. I very much hope that the noble Lord, Lord Henley, will bring those last two back at the next stage.