Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I have three headlines from The Guardian, which are like a tableau. From September, we have ““Liberal Democrats urged to defy plans to cut legal aid””; from October, we have ““Lib Dem MPs rebel against proposals to cut legal aid funding””; and from yesterday, we have ““Lib Dems have their cake and eat it””. That last article features a lovely picture of the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake). They rebel, and at the last moment, they do not.