Clause 20
Counter-Terrorism Bill
6:14 pm
Patrick Mercer (Newark, Conservative)
I absolutely take the point that the Minister makes—I also take the point from my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Beaconsfield—but he keeps using the word clarity. Subsection (4) will do nothing to add clarity, as far as I can see. It merely obfuscates. In a spirit of helpfulness, could we take out some of the double negatives. Would that make it clearer? I do not wish to go down the route of the canard, which is a phrase that the Minster has not yet used.