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Earl Erroll is pondering the perils of over-regulation.

I have a Kit-Kat here. Have I read any of this stuff on it? No, I haven’t got time, but I am sure it is all good, well meaning stuff on the labelling. I have not got powerful enough glasses for that any longer, anyway. In order to make the text bigger they would have to make the packaging bigger, in which case they would increase the waste, in which case we would have more landfill and other undesirable effects.

As the noble Earl said,

I suppose my message is very simple. Let us have some common sense. I know it is not common and I do not know whether I have it. [Hansard]