Leader of the House of Commons Geoff Hoon has scheduled the first vote on the government's controversial ID cards scheme on Tuesday 28th June. In a convenient and sneaky move this will be the same day many MPs will mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, thus many MP's will be away from the House. A succession of Tory MPs protested that the Government had deliberately timetabled the events for the same day to prevent MPs from attending both, but Hoon has dismissed their concerns as conspiracy theories.
