I am holding a soap box session this Saturday in Blackburn town centre, and I invite the right hon. and learned Gentleman to come along and ask me a question. The serious answer, however, is that very few constituents have articulated proposals for dealing with the problem of trust in politics—those proposals include the setting up of the parliamentary standards authority and the Wright Committee recommendations. People sense, however, that we need to make changes. They sense the need for greater legitimacy in our system. Above all, they want a greater and more immediate say on the system, and that is what the measure being discussed would provide.
Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Money) (No. 3)
Proceeding contribution from
Jack Straw
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 February 2010.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill.
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