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Employment Bill [Lords]

Proceeding contribution from David Anderson (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 14 July 2008. It occurred during Debate on bills on Employment Bill [Lords].
I could not agree more. The hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) is not in his place, but he put it better than anybody else. It is clear that he faces a challenge and that his life is under threat, but he is still prepared to stand up in the House to say that what these people are doing is wrong and that we should stand against it. My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell) is right that we may be over-legislating. We are giving the fascists a second chance that they do not need and should not have. I urge the Minister to do what my hon. Friend has just said: we should get the TUC involved and work with it so that we can have a framework that delivers what we want through the Committee stage of this Bill—the right to expel these people from trade unions and to deny them the right of union membership.

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Reference

479 c90 

Session

2007-08

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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