My Lords, if there is a period of 14 days in which discussions are taking place, you may end up at the end of those 14 days with a Government who are not the same Government as at the start of the 14 days. You may have a different Prime Minister and different Ministers; you may have different policies—all sorts of things may happen. I come back to the central point. Why on earth should we give a Government that period of additional opportunity to try to preserve a position that the House of Commons has rejected?
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Richard
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 March 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Fixed-term Parliaments Bill.
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