Yes, sadly it passed, on a reduced majority. It’s now up to the Lords to gut it. One nice quote:
Bob Marshall-Andrews, another Labour rebel, complained
that the Bill would give the Government the power to order people to
attend a meeting to have their fingerprints and other biometric
information taken for inclusion on the register.
"It
is not since the Domesday Book – a system of registration put into
place by the Normans, or the New Normans as I suspect they were known –
that British people have been required with their families to attend a
certain place at a certain time in order to have their details
measured," he said.
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