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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
Inherent in the police’s behaviour was not only misogyny but sexual exploitation. They used those women as pawns. We have been looking at the Epstein files this week and over the past few years, but here is an example in our country of the most appalling misogyny. I do not understand how anybody can look at the spy cops inquiry and not seek to change the law. Not only were the women treated as pawns by the police, but when they started raising concerns they were just brushed away, by people who had authorised the police to do that very thing. The power of the state to authorise criminal conduct should never be beyond scrutiny, but that is what happened in the spy cops case.
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