Standards in Public Life

Lord Campbell-Savours Excerpts

Thursday 2nd December 2010 Lords Chamber

[Lord McNally]

As I have said in answer to other questions, I think that what happened in the past is best left to the memoirs, and I can tell noble Lords that mine will be very readable. But in the mean time, I take encouragement from what my right honourable friend the Deputy Prime Minister said at the City and Islington College on 19 May. He said,

“David Cameron and I are determined to reform party funding”.

That is good enough for me.

[Lord Campbell-Savours]

How do we know that the Liberal Democratic element in this coalition will not simply roll over and allow the Conservative element of the coalition to dominate the debate?

[Lord McNally]

Because that has not happened thus far.