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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

Noble Lords might remember that a ship was built in Oxford Circus at one stage, and it stayed there for weeks. It is one of those things where, now that we are no longer in the roles that we were in then, you wonder why the heck somebody did not move that ship. You are left wondering how it got there. Did somebody bring it on the Tube? If we put that to one side, we have had protests outside mosques; we have had services outside mosques when it was said that there were too many people in the place of worship and they had to block the street. I do not think that was accurate, but that is what happened. We have had various examples where the police have tried to balance those rights and have been left in rather a confused position.

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