Business of the House (Police (Detention and Bail) Bill) Debate

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Business of the House (Police (Detention and Bail) Bill)

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Police (Detention and Bail) Bill
Thursday 7th July 2011

(13 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Soames of Fletching Portrait Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con)
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I rise wholly to endorse the words of the right hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Sir Alan Beith) and to say to my right hon. Friend the Policing Minister that I applaud the way in which he has handled this matter and the speed with which he has responded to what was clearly a completely untenable situation. Does he agree—as I am sure he does—that the history of emergency legislation is not always a happy one, so that the right hon. Gentleman’s points carry even greater weight?

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