If we look at the Bill - and I agree that it has got some good things in it - as the fruit of nine years of Conservative Government and three years of the right hon. Gentleman's term of office, and we think of it as the best they can do to meet the very grave Crisis of Crime That is facing the country today, we see that it is a miserable sort of thing, one in which no one, least of all the Home Secretary, can have very much pride.

I intend to welcome certain aspects of the Bill, but its general failure to tackle the Crisis of Crime That so many people fear has led us to table a reasoned amendment, not to oppose the Second Reading of the Bill.