Meanwhile, back in the Lords - "It's time for a futile sacrifice, ladies and gentlemen"

Ah yes, the joys of a wash-up which has been stitched up by the Labservatives in advance. Today sees four bills go through the committee, report and third hearing stages, driven through the Lords one after the other by an unholy alliance of Labour and Conservative benches;

• the Crime and Security Bill
• the Energy Bill
• the Children, Schools and Families Bill, and;
• the Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill

In the enabling debate that allowed this abortion of a democratic manoeuvre to go ahead, Paul Tyler moved an amendment to the enabling motion suspending Standing Orders. There was a debate, and the Liberal Democrats supported it in numbers, only to lose by a 4:1 margin to the forces of darkness.

It is expected that this will be the story of the evening, but 'Liberal Bureaucracy' will report further as the Liberal Democrat Peers launch a series of futile missions over the top into no man's land, only to be gunned down by the enemy...