Identity Cards Bill

The right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davis) concluded several points in his speech by saying, ““put that to one side””, so I intend to do that. But he did make two points that ought to be addressed. First, by virtue of the fact that some people have good reason to travel abroad, and therefore need to have a passport for that purpose, he argued that linking the identity card with the passport was in some way introducing an element of compulsion. By even the greatest stretch of the imagination, that argument is based on pure sophistry. The fact is that whether people have good reason or not—