Clause 68
Counter-Terrorism Bill
9:00 am
Dominic Grieve (Shadow Attorney General, Law Officers; Beaconsfield, Conservative)
Regrettably, I do not think very much of clause 68, and do not understand at all the need to amend the definition in the way proposed. I cannot conceive of a circumstance in which a “racial” cause is not already encompassed within “political, religious or ideological”, because anybody seeking to carry out terrorism on the back of a racial motive would already be caught. For us to add yet another unnecessary category to this growing list seems to me bad legislation, and we should try to avoid it.