Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing me to intervene on his intervention, but his basic argument is, ““This is just for the convenience of Government””—and for no other reason. In relation to reasonable force, the right hon. and learned Gentleman's argument, in so far as I could see it, was that basically, ““It isn't going to make the blindest bit of difference, so why not just let it go through?”” When Ministers say, ““We have to change the ordinary processes for the Government's convenience, and we know we can do it because we have a majority—by definition, because we are the Government,”” we almost always end up with bad legislation, as it is not sufficiently scrutinised. It certainly happened when we sat on the Government Benches, and I am absolutely certain that it will continue to happen now.