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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 December 2025

Debate

Sentencing Bill

Contribution

Given what I have heard here, I have, as I said, rarely been so moved by something. I used to work on the Koestler Trust, as I have told noble Lords, and we used to take the arts into prisons to try to give people some hope. I shall never forget managing to get a guitar to a man, who wrote to me afterwards and said, “Thank you so much for this. If I’d had this means of expressing myself when I was 18, I would not now be serving life for murder.”

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