🚨At nearly half past midnight, the House of Lords voted to reject a move to give the inquiry into Sarah Everard's death greater powers
"We must assume that the government want an inquiry that drags on for years and does not answer the fundamental questions" @brianpaddick
"We must assume that the government want an inquiry that drags on for years and does not answer the fundamental questions" @brianpaddick
https://twitter.com/GregBarradale/status/1480541494377394178
The timing of the vote meant just 129 peers voted - three times less than voted on the first division of the day
The votes of Conservative peers, who'd stayed late at night, also rejected a move to have this amendment voted on at a later date, put forward by @natalieben
The votes of Conservative peers, who'd stayed late at night, also rejected a move to have this amendment voted on at a later date, put forward by @natalieben
On the Home Office's current position, crossbencher Lord Carlile said: "The Home Secretary is saying that it would be possible to convert it to a statutory inquiry in certain circumstances. That is one of the most meaningless statements in this context that I have ever heard."
Why does a statutory inquiry matter?
The last non-statutory inquiry into the police - the Daniel Morgan inquiry - took 8 years
Its author "faced obstruction, and said specifically in her findings that she knew that she had been hampered by not having the statutory powers"
The last non-statutory inquiry into the police - the Daniel Morgan inquiry - took 8 years
Its author "faced obstruction, and said specifically in her findings that she knew that she had been hampered by not having the statutory powers"
Shami Chakrabarti last night: "I still have questions, and so do people all over the country, about the wider issues of culture, professionalism and practices in our police service in relation to crimes against women and girls
"We have not had our Lawrence moment."
"We have not had our Lawrence moment."
Blows a bit of a hole in the idea of the Lords as the last great bastion of parliamentary scrutiny if you can just...win votes by holding them after everyone's gone to bed
📰Full story here:
🗣️ @natalieben: "I'm confident that conducted at a ‘normal’ working time – say before 8.30pm – this amendment would have passed in the House"
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bigissue.com/news/politics/…
🗣️ @natalieben: "I'm confident that conducted at a ‘normal’ working time – say before 8.30pm – this amendment would have passed in the House"
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bigissue.com/news/politics/…
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