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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 7 January 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

We have to get this right if our fundamental freedoms are not to be progressively eroded. History teaches us that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. The quote is often attributed to Thomas Jefferson—almost certainly wrongly, but it is none the less valid. Our Amendment 369 is a way of helping the Government to avoid serious infringements of our liberties creeping into law almost inadvertently, and Amendment 371 would assist the protection of the right to protest by the review it calls for. I beg to move.

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