The Conservative voter has the same vote in both rounds, whereas the other voter is able to change his vote. That means he has two votes. [Interruption.] I am very sorry. The hon. Gentleman can make his point as much as he likes, but the fact is that one chap has two chances to decide and the other chap has only one chance to decide. [Hon. Members: ““No!””] Look, in the House of Commons it is always perfectly reasonable to say that there are two ways of looking at the mathematics, or we would never have passed any of the Government's Budgets.
One can say, ““It's really one because it's sort of the Conservative voting Conservative twice.”” In my view, one person has a series of different choices and the other has one choice, and he cannot go back and say, ““In the end, I'd rather like to have done it a different way,”” so he is in a different position.
Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Money) (No. 3)
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Lord Deben
(Conservative)
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