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Coroners and Justice Bill

Mr. Deputy Speaker, if I am insulted and cat-called from a sedentary position, Members will get as good as they give. Along with my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon and others, I am worried, if there is a change of Government, about handing to the state and the judiciary new powers that in that case would have denied the right of British citizens to know how their loved ones died. We should therefore resist it, so I say with affection and respect to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that I cannot follow him into the Lobby on this proposal.