I understand that there are strong feelings about that. Those encampments are unsightly, but they also represent people exercising a right to demonstrate. The changes in the law have not been conspicuously successful—[Interruption.] It is no good pointing at me; I am not the police. The changes in the law have not been conspicuously successful in dealing with the problem, and they have appeared to be pretty heavy handed as well, so better arrangements are needed. Let us see what the House has to say about it.
Constitutional Renewal
Proceeding contribution from
Jack Straw
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 25 March 2008.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Constitutional Renewal.
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