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Helen Goodman

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1st reading: House of Commons
Tuesday 1st November 2016

(8 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Helen Goodman Portrait Helen Goodman (Bishop Auckland) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State says that she wants to come up to date with what is going on now, and not just look back at the tragedies of 10 years ago. Well, she needs only to look at the case of Fatima Manji to see that the same people being complained about were the judges and the jury in the regulator, IPSO. That is the problem.

Karen Bradley Portrait Karen Bradley
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I do not want to comment on individual cases that have been brought to any regulator. What I want to see is robust regulation.