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I am grateful to the Minister for his eternal patience. Does he agree that the amendment is likely to be incompatible with the ECHR? Am I right that, as members of the European Union, we are collectively bound by that, and that if the Opposition were to press the amendment to a Division they would therefore, in effect, call into question the whole basis of our association with the European Union?