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Identity Cards Bill

No. As the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution said,"““we continue to believe that the constitutional significance of the Bill is that it adjusts the fundamental relationship between the individual and the State.””" If one is going to adjust the fundamental relationship between the individual and the state—an issue of some importance—one would have thought that that would be clearly set out in the manifesto. If the Government want to introduce compulsory ID cards, let them come to the House with a Bill to do so, and let them not do so through the back door, as they are seeking to do.