Police and Justice Bill

I do not ask the hon. Lady to accept anything that we say; I simply ask her to accept what her ministerial colleague, Baroness Scotland, said in another place on this point on 16 December 2003. She said that the test that we have to meet when we seek extradition to this country is"““a higher threshold than we ask of the United States, and I make no secret of that.””—[Official Report, House of Lords, 16 December 2003; Vol. 655, c. 1063.]" Those were the precise words of the hon. Lady’s ministerial colleague in another place. Why does she continue to fly in the face of those words?