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Recall of MPs Bill

Proceeding contribution from Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 24 November 2014. It occurred during Debate on bills on Recall of MPs Bill.

I am not sure the hon. Gentleman is right about that because, interestingly, the ability to expel peers very carefully ensured it was not retrospective to the crime or to the sentence. It was right to adopt the principle that it is fundamentally unjust to punish people when they did not know that was the punishment at the time when they committed the offence, so I must oppose his amendment.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
588 c690 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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