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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

My Lords, one again has to say thank you, but, in this case, thank you for slightly less than in the last case. In this case, as I understand it, an interim order now has to be specifically timed, but there is no limit on the specific time. Interim orders seem to me to be even more a case of ““We’ve been told by somebody down the pub that somebody might go and kick somebody’s teeth in next Tuesday, but we’re not sure who it is””. They will be based on much less evidence, as far as I understand them, otherwise they would not be interim. Again, there is no point in dividing the House on this. I wish that the Government had gone further. From what the noble Lord said just now, he and the Government still do not understand the general and persistent assault on the liberties of the subject that they have done and are slowly and gradually beginning to wake up to it. Having said that, thank you for the smidgeon. I shall not move my amendments—I will not be able to do so anyway because of pre-emption.