The hon. Gentleman cannot have it both ways. The Government introduced an arcane procedure, which was first used, I think, by Winston Churchill in 1929, effectively to stop us moving any substantive amendments. Does he not recognise that, whatever we wanted to do, we would not have been able to change things anyway, because the Government were not permitting us to do so?
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Peter Dowd
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 21 February 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Finance (No. 2) Bill.
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