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Identity Cards Bill

I have to say to the noble Lord, Lord Gould, that I do not think he should consider that people who are worried about the liberty of all our citizens, and most of all about the liberty of the least privileged—particularly women and ethnic minorities, who feel that they need a card in order to affirm their identity—do not understand the way the world works. We understand very well. A lot of us have been elected at local level, we do a great deal of social work, and we know just as much, I suggest, as he does about such things. He must not think that because we are worried about underprivileged people’s liberty in relation to this Bill that we do not know what we are talking about. I hope he will stop saying that.