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Identity Cards Bill

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. He will have noted, as the House will have done, that the hon. Member for South Swindon (Anne Snelgrove) a few moments ago used the word ““understood”” in respect of the Labour manifesto. Does he accept that the hon. Lady has invented a new constitutional doctrine, that the purpose of a manifesto is not to communicate a clear message to the electorate, but to communicate internally to party colleagues in the doublespeak that only they understand? Will he confirm that establishing what proportion of the electorate thought that the return of a Labour Government would mean compulsory ID cards would require several noughts after the decimal point before one reached a positive figure?