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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I am particularly concerned about Amendment 378A, which is about protecting democratic buildings, parliamentary offices, constituency offices and surgeries. I think that democratic buildings are for the demos. There is a real danger of wrapping democratic buildings in cotton wool—or putting up gates, as we have done here, so that the public are the enemy and cannot see through them. I really do not like that, and I think that it is rather dangerous.

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