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Counter-Terrorism Bill

I turn to the point about what would trigger these powers. Interestingly, my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) writing in Tribune last week said:"““There must be a genuine national emergency, the discovery of multiple and complex plots aimed at causing massive loss of life, the extent of which would overwhelm the capacity and resources of the police and security services and relate to a life and death situation with hundreds of people caught in a terrorist outrage.””" I am sure we would all agree that in such circumstances there might be a case, but is it correct that this is not the trigger that would give the Home Secretary the powers to ask this House to extend the emergency powers?