Socio-economic Equality Duty
Debate between Baroness Featherstone and David Winnick(14 years ago)
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Lynne Featherstone
I agree. That is the whole point. That is why I called the duty weak and why Lord Lester from the other place called it watery. It would not deliver what it said it would. Other proposals in the Bill were more important, but this duty distracted from their importance.
Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab)
I am rather pleased by what the Minister has said, because it demonstrates beyond any shadow of a doubt that she, like other Liberal Democrats in the Government, is simply a mouthpiece of the Tories.