I fully respect your position that you are deferring to the House of Commons, but I have been intrigued over the last couple of weeks that there have been hand-wringing and nervous concerns about the role of the Senate, what we should be doing and how we should be doing it. There have been references to the House of Lords and the British system, which we are based upon, but the House of Lords, of course, never defeats legislation the government campaigned on.

However, I’m wondering if you’re aware that, yesterday, the House of Lords defeated a Brexit amendment on which the government not only ran an election but on which it had a separate referendum. They defeated it by a vote of 335 to 244. It is all over the British media as a major defeat for Prime Minister May. She promised the house a meaningful vote, and the Lords insisted it would be a binding vote. They passed an amendment to that end.