If his maxim were applied to contemporary novelists, then RichardPowers would have to be one of the best, because he is without question one of the cleverest.
Labour Peer Lord Ivor Richard, Chair of a Cross Party Commission that reviewed Assembly powers in 2004 also warns that the mechanism, known in Parliamentary language as "Henry VIII powers" will "raise a few eyebrows" in the upper house.
The event was organised by Tomorrow's Wales, the movement chaired by Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan to support the implementation of the Richard Commission, which called for the assembly to have full law-making powers.