Identity Cards Bill

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. It is disgraceful for the Government to try to pretend that they are rewriting the manifesto. Did we not all hear the Home Secretary on Monday try to defend this proposal with his reference to free will? He said:"““That is the free will that people may exercise in deciding whether or not they wish to have a passport . . . That is the free will over what they can do and how they can operate. That is what the wording means.””—[Official Report, 13 March 2006; Vol. 443, c. 1261.]" In other words, the Home Secretary seems to suggest that we have a voluntary choice as to whether we have a passport. That is what he said, in terms, on Monday, so the Government cannot come to the House on Thursday and try to rewrite completely what they said then.