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Gary McKinnon (Extradition)

No, and for three reasons. Number one, no one has given an argument explaining why probable cause is less of a hurdle to cross than reasonable suspicion; none. Number two, there is not a single case—[Interruption.] An hon. Member on the Opposition Front Bench says that the Attorney-General said that. In a debate in another place on precisely this issue just two weeks ago, when an amendment was tabled to the then Policing and Crime Bill to say that we should revisit the issue in relation to forum—where an individual would be prosecuted—and when the House of Lords successfully overturned an amendment of that nature, the Attorney-General made it absolutely plain that it is a matter of form against fact. When the Attorney-General was a Home Office Minister, she talked at this Dispatch Box about the legislation that we were debating, but which was not then in place. We now have four or five years' experience of this legislation, and my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay) cannot point to one single case—and nor could my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) at the Home Affairs Committee—or any argument in fact showing that there was an imbalance between the two Acts. I repeat: they could not point to one single argument. In relation to Gary McKinnon, of course, the issue is academic because he has admitted to the charges.