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Terrorism Bill

My hon. Friend very shrewdly avoided the elephant trap that had been laid for him by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Rob Marris) and I hope that he will not now fall into an alternative trap. May I put it to him that it is not merely a question of safeguards or of the existence of a sunset clause, valuable though both those things can be, but of the evidential base, if such base there be, for an extension of time? It is not a matter of saying, ““Some people think two plus two is four, others think two plus two is six, so we will compromise on five.”” It must be a matter of principle, and the Government have not yet made a case, by providing examples, for any sort of extension. We cannot accept some sort of cobbled-together compromise in the name of a quiet life.