Education and Adoption Bill

Lord Storey Excerpts

Wednesday 16th December 2015 Lords Chamber

[Lord Storey (LD)]

My Lords, we on this side are now anxious to make progress. We have had the discussions and the debate and are grateful to the Minister for the concessions that he has made on a number of issues. I pay tribute to him for that. He has worked hard at it. We do have some fundamental differences, but this is government: we have to move on, accept what has happened and make the changes work.

Unlike the noble Lord, Lord True, I am not going to pore through every comment that Conservatives have made and try to score cheap points, except to say of course that at the last general election, they got 37% of the vote and only 26% of the entire electorate.

[Lord True]

I did not think that it was a cheap point in this ancient democracy to say that the people decide.