Debates between Kieran Mullan and Marco Longhi during the 2019-2024 Parliament

Mon 23rd May 2022
Public Order Bill
Commons Chamber

2nd reading & 2nd reading

Public Order Bill

Debate between Kieran Mullan and Marco Longhi
2nd reading
Monday 23rd May 2022

(2 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Marco Longhi Portrait Marco Longhi
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I thank my hon. Friend for making those points. In exposing himself, that individual probably made more sense than at any time when I have heard him speaking.

Kieran Mullan Portrait Dr Kieran Mullan (Crewe and Nantwich) (Con)
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Does my hon. Friend agree that everyone in the House knows that if we want to get things done, we have to knock on doors, deliver leaflets and persuade people to vote for us, and that short-cutting that by disrupting people’s lives is not acceptable? If those people want to get things done, they need to do what all of us do: go out and earn votes and change ideas and minds.

Marco Longhi Portrait Marco Longhi
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My hon. Friend is quite right. If he was also referring to the individual whom we just described, I challenged that very person to come and stand against me in Dudley North. Let us see if he has the courage to do so—or is he just a big loudmouth and a coward as well?

Dudley people want to be able to go about their business without others impinging on their ordinary lives. The Bill brings together a set of common-sense approaches. It is about that no-nonsense common sense that ordinary people want this Conservative Government to deliver. I very much thank both the Home Secretary and the Minister for Crime and Policing, who is doing his best to ensure that police officers in Dudley will deliver on these measures, using the new police station that I know he is working hard to secure for the people of Dudley North.