Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I want to ask the dumb question why, particularly regarding the reference to the Bill of Rights. I do not believe the Government is about to deprive us of all our liberties, but constitutional evolution, albeit on the part of a foreign government, is of great significance. The evolution of rights in the English parliamentary system is part of the evolution of world democracy. I do not know why we must make specific reference. I will not even go into the Act passed in the first year of William and Mary's reign, since it would be too difficult.