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Public Order Bill

Proceeding contribution from Rupa Huq (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 March 2023. It occurred during Debate on bills on Public Order Bill.

I want to carry on for a minute, actually.

Some of the tactics that such people employ include live-streaming, filming and uploading to Facebook, despite there sometimes being a violent ex-partner in the background. I do not disagree with praying or informing, as I think people call it, but there is a time and a place for everything. That informing should take place at the GP surgery down the line.

The hon. Member for Northampton South said that the police are being made into a laughing stock, but our police in Ealing welcome the measure because it frees them from patrolling two different groups outside the clinic, so they can fight real crime. There is real crime out there.

Anyone should be able to use medical services without navigating an obstacle course of people trying to impose their view of what is right on the process to dissuade and deter. Even the reviled Iranian regime got rid of its morality police, so why do we allow them here?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
729 c214 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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