I have now been advised to do so twice, so I will heed that advice. I am pleased to support the Bill. This is the furthest the proposal has ever got in Parliament since the original daylight saving experiment in the 1970s. I should add that that experiment was overturned not because the nation did not want it. The polls at the time were very much supportive of it. It was overturned because the farmers of the day—
Daylight Saving Bill (Money)
Proceeding contribution from
Tobias Ellwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 22 November 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Daylight Saving Bill (Money).
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