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Identity Documents Bill

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend—for whom I worked as a Parliamentary Private Secretary for many happy years—for giving way. I would be quite happy to concede the financial point if the Government were prepared to cut a deal and let me keep the card until it expired. That seems quite reasonable, because it is a European card. Every time I have used it to go through airports in the past three months, people have said, ““Ooh, that's a good idea! The Brits are becoming like us.”” Well, thanks to the coalition, now we are not.