Racial and Religious Hatred Bill

My Lords, after such graciousness I can hardly keep my feet—I am slipping all over the place. I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. On a point of definition, I have never been proud of any definition that I have expressed yet; this one was borrowed from the Public Bill Office, and I thought that it did awfully well for the occasion—it was quite enough. But as it is not likely to be immortal, I see no reason to apologise for it. I have one comment to make to the Minister, who is always so nice. She spoke about ““we”” looking with ““purposeful energy””. I could contemplate the Minister herself looking with purposeful energy at me or almost anything else, but the idea of some of her colleagues looking at things with purposeful energy frightens me greatly. Nevertheless, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.