Identity Cards Bill

This shows something unhealthy about the Government’s attitude to individual liberty. It does not seem to have entered their heads that to lock up all the details of every subject of Her Majesty in a computer for future use is deeply offensive to our traditional liberties. It may be that it is becoming unfashionable to go on talking about such matters. The noble Baroness obviously wishes to talk to the noble Lord, Lord Bassam, while I am speaking and she is entitled to do that, but it is—