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Criminal Law (Amendment) (Protection of Property) Bill

I apologise to my hon. Friend for frivolously hesitating. He makes a good point. If we are honest about it, in all these situations people are operating at the edge of law and are not sure where they stand. That is the problem which, to be fair, the hon. Lady’s Bill purports to address, which the Bill introduced by the hon. Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer) attempted to address, and which the Home Office guidance on the existing law attempted to address. It is a genuine difficulty. I share with the hon. Lady, though not, I think, with the hon. Member for North Thanet (Mr. Gale), the view that Tony Martin moved beyond the stage of proportionate response, even to the point of grossly disproportionate response.