The dangerous extremism of the present Tory Westminster Government is evident when it prompts the House of Lords to act with the determination it showed last night, sitting into the early hours defeating clause after clause of what were dubbed oppressive and outrageous Government proposals, which threaten to undermine basic civil liberties and fundamental rights. Llywydd, we must send an equally powerful message from this place that we will have no part in the passage of a Bill containing draconian measures that are, in many cases, racist, authoritarian and disproportionate, undermining as they do the very cohesion of our society and the values that we hold dear, upon which our democracy rests.