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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 February 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

We need to teach these young people—largely young men and boys—that they need to take responsibility for their actions, their conscious decisions, their interventions. We should not be turning them into victims because one of the people that they hung around with acted out the violent rhetoric and took another life, while they did not but were held equally guilty. So, assuming collective intent or collective guilt is a terrible law and unjust. We need these young men to understand that the criminal justice—

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