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Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:15 pm on 6 February 2012.

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Photo of Peter Bottomley Peter Bottomley Conservative, Worthing West 10:15, 6 February 2012

Might not the same thing have applied to William Wilberforce when he first had the rather revolutionary idea of abolishing the slave trade, or Samuel Plimsoll and his idea of painting a white line on the side of ships so that they would not be overladen with sailors who would otherwise go down to Davy Jones’s locker?