Member

I do not say this to relitigate the proscription of Palestine Action, which came up at length in the previous group. Like the noble Viscount, Lord Hailsham, I ask Members of the Committee to think not just about past Prime Ministers who they have been sceptical of but about such powers being in the hands of future Prime Ministers, whoever they may be, as well as future Home Secretaries, because this is formally a power for the Home Secretary to prescribe guilt by association to anyone who expresses support for an organisation that may have some people in it who have committed offences of whatever kind.