John Whittingdale, the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture select committee, called for an urgent change to the law to ensure the media can report proceedings in parliament. "Not only [is] it essential that MPs should be allowed to raise matters in parliament," he said, "it [is] as important that the media should be free to report MPs' comments. We need to change the law to make it clear that reporting is allowed."

Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters. "If there is a clear public interest, they should be able to speak about that issue," he said.

John Hemming, the Lib Dem MP who first raised banker Sir Fred Goodwin's injunction in the Commons, accused judges of attempting to gag parliament. "They're arguing that issues like poisoned water should not be debated publicly," he said. "I think they're wrong."

"Cannot have convicted drugs criminals running round the commons with a security pass now can we?"
But it's perfectly acceptable for Ministers to campaign against legalising drugs, forgetting to mention that her husband has a huge legal drugs farm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/drugs-minister-victoria-atkins-hypocrisy-cannabis-paul-kenward-british-sugar-a8356056.html

For Christ's sake, this is about protecting a probable sexual predator, not about ****** drugs
Parliament is full of self- servers in all parties, this is why it is necessary to kick out the ld guard adnd replace them with principled politicians
Rape and sexual predation is one of the hardest accusations to prove, usually it only takes a predator with cash enough cash to buy a slick lawyer to bury any wrongdoing, that is why the vast majority of them go UNREPORTED
At the very least we need to know who the suspects are, as we do in most crimes

This is like being back at school, where all the lads with ties and Brycreamed hair leap to attention everytime royalty or someone of importance is mentioned
It really is time you people got your heads out of the arse of the establishment and regarded the shitty crimes you are defending
Jim Carroll