The 11 page Government document published yesterday Government Changes in Response to the Future Forum does contain a considerable set of changes to the Government reform programme. This is a genuine reform of the reforms.

Going through each paragraph, most of them contain significant amendments to last July’s White Paper and will require extensive changes to the Bill. (This is why the Government is correct to ensure that the Bill has to go through the Commons Committee stage again. You can’t politically say that the Bill is being radically changed and at the same time procedurally say that it doesn’t need a completely new Commons Committee stage)