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Identity Cards Bill

I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. She is getting into her favourite ““auntie”” act now. She is being supremely reasonable, nice and charming and saying, ““Of course I wouldn’t. Of course I will””. But she is not going to run this ruddy system. It will be run by some faceless bureaucrat—I withdraw that at once; it will be some perfectly decent bureaucrat—and one does not know quite how it will work out. We are surrounded by systems that have gone wrong. We have to deal with the facts in the Bill and in the code, so the noble Baroness should stop soft-soaping us.