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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 6 January 2026
Debate
Sentencing BillContribution
It is interesting to go back 11 years to 2014, when the mistake had been made but the Lord Chancellor was not prepared to deal with the position of those who had been punished prior to the sentence being abolished, to see what was said. If you read the debates in 2014, you can see what Lord Ramsbotham and Lord Lloyd thought, and what Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood said. In October 2014, he said:
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