My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords and noble Baronesses who have taken part in the debate. It has been wide-ranging, as we anticipated it would be. I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his remarks. I shall obviously not spend long on what I say now, given the hour. As we
approached midnight, I was looking around the corner to see whether a pumpkin would arrive with horses. I was not sure whether it would be for me or for the noble and learned Lord opposite.
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I have three points in conclusion. I am grateful that the noble and learned Lord said that the Government are still looking and will continue to look at these issues. He has heard strong expressions of opinion from a number of noble Lords that there is a problem with what the Government are doing and they should think again about it. I urge that to be done. Secondly, he suggested that the way to do that would be for others to identify omissions from the protection that the Bill provides and present them to him or the Government. With respect, that is the wrong way to deal with it. The Government themselves have set about this by saying that they will incorporate the entirety of EU law on exit day and then change it through the processes provided in the Bill or through the possibilities in this House. That is the approach we strongly recommend that the Government should follow. It is what the Prime Minister said would happen and it is what ought to happen. That will allow the sort of debate and scrutiny that will take place. But, thirdly, if it helps in getting to that position for us to sit down with the noble and learned Lord and his officials to go through some of these technical issues, which there are, I am very happy that we should do that. Having said that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.