Clause 18
Employment Bill [Lords]
1:45 pm
Jonathan Djanogly (Shadow Minister, Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform; Huntingdon, Conservative)
I have said openly, as has my hon. Friend the Member for Billericay—the Minister tried to create some sort of difference between us on this—that conceptually, we do not like the legislation. We do not like the clause; we are concerned about its overall impact on civil liberties. However, we respect the ECHR and realise that it is our starting point. We are not trying to overturn the ECHR decision and certainly not the ECHR, which was the extra world that we got into. We are where we are, and we have made our point. I will go away, look through the Hansard report of today’s debate and think again about how we can review the amendments before the Bill is considered on Report, because we will certainly want to raise that issue again. In the meantime, we are willing to discuss it with the Minister and hope that there will be movement on it before Report. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.