Parliamentary Standards Bill

I am following the hon. Gentleman's argument, but, as I said earlier, it is worth looking at the evidence. As a former distinguished Clerk to the House said recently, the evidence shows that in the golden age of the 1950s and 1960s, the House was wholly quiescent. There was not a single rebellion against the Government in the early 1950s, compared with repeated rebellions under Margaret Thatcher and under this Government.