Risk-based Exclusion

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 7:39 pm ar 13 Mai 2024.

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Photo of Jess Phillips Jess Phillips Llafur, Birmingham, Yardley 7:39, 13 Mai 2024

I guess it would entirely depend on the sexual offence, but even though I jokingly said earlier that I will be on the panel, I can recognise enough my own particular bias in this regard. I do think that exclusion would be the answer, but the truth is that so will most people.

To address the point made by Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg that this Chamber is where we represent people, are the constituents of the hon. Member for Christchurch—I am using him as an example, because Sir Philip Davies said that he was not here—or anybody else’s constituents bereft? Are the constituents of all the people who are not in the Chamber now not being represented? The argument that keeps being made is, “I am doing it for my constituents”, but I bet that I could find people in every Member’s constituency who do not feel they are being represented particularly well.