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Contaminated Blood

Proceeding contribution from Mike Kane (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 15 January 2015. It occurred during Backbench debate on Contaminated Blood.

I agree with the hon. Gentleman.

Many of the victims have lost the will to fight. There should be greater anger there, but they cannot deal with that anger and fight at the same time. Fred, Eleanor and Peter tell me that they will fight until they die. They have seen their stock of affected friends die horribly, and they feel that that is all they have to look forward too. They believe that it is time to admit that we made a mistake, and to allow those people to get on with their lives. Hope is real. There is no such thing as false hope. There might be false science, and there might have been false starts, but hope is real for those people. We in this Chamber today should help them to reignite that hope.

1.4 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
590 c1052 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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