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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 27 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

Why do I say this? It is because it would otherwise be open to any Home Secretary of whatever colour, in the past, present or future, to proscribe a number of organisations in a single order. Some of these may be pretty uncontroversial, as most of them have been in the past: al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Combat 18, et cetera are organisations that plainly fall within any common-sense, let alone legislative, definition of terrorism because of the way they instrumentalise and target humans for violence.

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