In a word, no. That piece of legislation was a serious one with effects on a wide range of our citizens so, good or bad, my right hon.
Friend did indeed conduct an enormously impressive campaign at a time when he was an outrider of the sort that I have found myself, in an unaccustomed way, forced into being in the past few months. He was highly successful at it. This is a very different kind of Bill, because all it does�as the House will see when we come to consider it�is to enjoin Ministers to put propositions to Parliament. I do not think that that can possibly be regarded as a very dangerous or controversial activity. It might be one that some of my hon. Friends do not wish to see happen�a perfectly legitimate political dispute�but it is not a case in which in the interstices of the law lie questions of freedom.