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Terrorism Bill

The hon. Gentleman is right. That is the horrendously, deliberately and expressly wide nature of this part of the Bill. Another example would be that of a proposer of a university debate—I think that I have also done this myself—speaking to the motion, ““This House would become a suicide bomber,”” and delivering, one hopes, a particularly cogent speech, not believing it for one minute or intending that it should happen, but knowing that there is a student audience out there that includes near-radicalised or semi-radicalised people who might listen to the words and be encouraged to commit terrorist acts as a result. That would be caught under the Act, without a shadow of a doubt. One would have to rely on the Director of Public Prosecutions to exercise his imprimatur to avoid it. A teacher or tutor distributing terrorist propaganda to a class studying history in the middle east would be caught under the Act without a shadow of a doubt.