A key point to remember is that this Bill, despite all the carnage that it has been through, is still only at the halfway stage of its journey through the Houses of Parliament – and the second half is likely to be harder than the first.

The content of the Bill has ceased to matter to anybody in Government apart from the Secretary of State and a few of the civil servants who drafted the thing. The simple motivation for the rest of the Government is to get rid of the thing by getting it through.