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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 19 November 2025

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

I think Charles Dickens and Charles Booth would recognise the same forms of criminality and the same ability of some adults to use childhood as a training ground for extending their criminal activities in a way that is unconscionable but, when done efficiently, I suspect is highly profitable. The fact that it has a potentially lifelong effect on the children who are being drawn into this is, for the perpetrators, completely and utterly irrelevant.

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