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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I will address that when we reach the amendments in two days' time—[Interruption.] Well, that is exactly where the Labour Government were two years ago. We are attempting to clarify the law and reassure people that the use of reasonable force is indeed legitimate in English law. The main thing it deals with is the fact that there is no duty to retreat when facing a dangerous or threatening attack, but we will discuss that when we come to that part of the Bill. If that was a fundamental change in the law, I would probably face objections to its introduction on Report. It is an attempt once more to built up public confidence in the perfectly reasonable right people have to use legitimate force when defending themselves and their property.