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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 December 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

Using the term “honour-based” can imply legitimacy, so we should say “dishonour abuse”, so that “shame changes sides”, as Gisèle Pelicot would say, from survivors to perpetrators. It is a fundamental point that, when we talk about honour-based, that is not what we are talking about. We are talking about dishonour-based.

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