Identity Cards Bill

That question is so unimportant compared with the central philosophical issue with which we are dealing that I am not going to answer the hon. Lady. I want simply to say to the Home Secretary that he must consider very seriously how he is going to get the British people to believe him about anything else after he has explained away the words in the Labour party manifesto to mean something that no sane person could possibly believe they meant at the time. In those circumstances, he stands condemned both as Home Secretary and as a Member of Parliament.