I must say that I hold a completely different view from that of my colleague Mr. Lee. Of all the criminal offences that would be removed from the list as a result of Mr. Comartin's amendments, we would have, for instance, “assault”, and “assaulting a police officer”.
Now when one hears “assault causing bodily harm” or “assaulting a police officer”, people will necessarily believe it involves some serious injury. In fact, if I get into a verbal altercation with a police officer and at some point I merely put my hands on the police office—I don't push him, I simply put my hands on him—that's assault of the police officer.