Member

What is clear in the debate on the Bill before us today is that there is a deep lack of consensus about it and a sense of mistrust, rightly or wrongly, as to whether the Government are correctly representing their position that this is simply the first of a series of measures that will follow, or whether, as my noble friend Lord Hailsham said, this is simply one measure which will not be followed by any others, at least not in this Parliament, and the rest of the Labour Party manifesto is not going to be enacted.