Westminster debaters on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill haven’t reached any compromise or any result.
Philip Webster, Political Editor of The Times, reports: "In the years I’ve been covering Parliament I’ve never seen anything like it. This is a constitutional breakdown, it isn’t supposed to happen.”

"MPs are still working under the guillotine rule which was introduced earlier this week and means every time the Bill comes back from the Lords they have only an hour to debate it. At 8.30am today Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, really laid into the Lords calling them stick in the muds, then the vote was taken and the Bill was sent back off,” said Philip Webster.

Huw Irranca-Davies, Labour MP for Ogmore considers that bill improvement is a necessary thing but this can be held over the coming month but not under the time limit set in the "sunset clause".

"I think it’s going to end with the Lords backing down on the burden of proof amendment and then the Government will have to consider a sunset clause, although one which has a longer expiry period than the 12 months now on the table - maybe two years would be acceptable, although when I put this to Downing Street earlier I was shot down in flames,” Philip Webster concluded.