Same-sex divides all parties, Liberals included, and a better bet for the Tories would be to come out with something that mobilizes their base.

Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are archaic, but section 329 (the ban) manages the stunning achievement of being both undemocratic and archaic at the same time.

This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government more honest, more accountable and to make it better.