I’m grateful to him for making the reference to the 1970s, because I also remember this period extremely well. I was in the bar the very night—[Laughter.]—the two Irish colleagues, Gerry Fitt and Frank Maguire, arrived to abstain in person.

But the difference, surely, is this: that, in this case, this deal is being made with a massive subvention totally outwith the normal constitutional and financial arrangements and totally outwith the Barnett formula. The deals that were made between Labour and ourselves and other parties, in the times of Wilson and Callaghan, were deals that were made openly on a limited scale. They weren’t intended to prop up a Government for five years.