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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I return to the subject with today’s amendment, because we have a lacuna that is a matter for the Home Office to address. Our city streets now teem with men —usually men—on fast cycles, electric bikes and scooters whose faces, sometimes even in summer, are hidden by balaclavas or ski masks. This feels hostile, even if it is not, especially if accompanied by live music or shouts of, “Get out of the way”. Often, the intentions of such concealment are malign.

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