Member

We have all recently been celebrating the fact that, at last, Thomas White has been discharged from prison into a hospital cell and will now be a patient, not a prisoner. He has been discussed in this House many times. It is so depressing that we call that move a victory, when it has been such a hard and gruelling slog over six years, involving so many people’s hard work and dedication to pull it off—the huge courage and campaigning of his sister Clara and the magnificent journalism of Amy-Clare Martin at the Independent. His case has been continually raised by MPs and Peers. I give a special shout-out to the noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, for his personal interventions with the family and full credit to the Minister for visiting Mr White in March. But that is a huge amount of political intervention to get someone who was so obviously too ill for prison into hospital.