A good question, if they were the least interested. We've won all the arguments, but that doesn't help much.

However if the Lords stay onside there's a good prospect of coming away with something. This isn't the only bit of legislation in trouble for the same kind of reasons. Here's a piece in today's Guardian about the others - Logjam in Lords leads to timetabling problems "Lord Grocott, the Blairite chief whip in the Lords, is expected to admit the government's difficulties today after delays to reforms of criminal justice, extradition, mass media ownership and even the fluoridation of water."