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Integration and Cohesion (17 Apr 2007): Patrick Mercer: ...words, the Government condemned their own strategy in September 2005. The breath was knocked out of me just a few weeks ago when the Home Secretary, while discussing the Home Office's evolutions, changes and new organisation, seemed to suggest that Project Contest would remain in force unchanged. Indeed, he went on to say that the first strand, which we are discussing today—the...
Public Bill Committee: Identity Cards Bill: Clause 15 - Power to make public services conditional on identity checks (25 Jan 2005): Mr Patrick Mercer: I wish to clarify what the Minister said earlier when he referred to a change in circumstances. Let us assume that something like the Madrid bombing had occurred in this country and that the whole climate in which our police and security forces have to operate changed overnight as, indeed, did the political climate. Does the hon. Gentleman foresee circumstances when, with the cards in...
Orders of the Day — Extradition Bill (9 Dec 2002): Mr Patrick Mercer: ...the risk of scaring the pants off the population by warning people about likely terrorist attacks. They have argued, cogently in some respects, that that does the terrorists' job for them. Any changes to our extradition laws will partially assist the terrorist in achieving his aims of bringing about a change in the law and a wholly different climate in which law-abiding nations work, and...

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