Maclean's Bill Dies Unloved

According to ConservativeHome (HERE), The Times (HERE) and The Daily Mail (HERE) and doubtless others, Maclean's Freedom Of Information Amendment Bill 2007 has failed to find a sponsor in the House of Lords and it would appear that it has now met its just desserts at the hands of their Lordships who have, not for the first time, shown a great deal more sound commonsense than their elected counterparts in the Commons.

Whilst there remains a theoretical chance that a Peer may yet be found to do Maclean's dirty work at the crossroads, perhaps we can now give thanks that we still have a House of Lords that is not a mere mirror of the Commons and that is a repository of that sort of commonsense and good judgement that tells them to run a mile from this sort of self-indulgent and self-destructive behaviour on the part of the Commons.