The fact that the Labour and Liberal tribes are now agreed on a programme of constitutional change--including reform of the HouseofLords, Scottish and Welsh devolution, and a freedom of information act--may help with voters, since the endorsement makes John Major's denunciations of constitutional change seem merely hysterical.
Mr Speaker, in the last 12 years we have created the devolved administrations, ended the hereditary principle in the HouseofLords, and introduced the Freedom of Information Act and the Human Rights Act.