on the one hand, stella creasy would argue that there are certain duties that only an mp can perform, someone else can't do the work for her. on the other hand, there will be newscasters watching and listening to us thinking, i can't take my child to the police station when i turn up for my shift as a copper, or whatever, and therefore maybe her argument shouldn't be given too much credibility. what i would say is, you know, ithink there are many, many views, and that's the problem. stella quite rightly has her view, i've got other mothers who are saying, i don't agree with that. we shouldn't be treated differently, you know, i represent constituents, i expect to be treated the same. so, there really is an issue. i've got both sides of the argument. what i'm saying is, whoever's in the chair should take what they think is the right decision at that moment. and in the meantime, for me to rule as a male, i don't think... you know, who am i, a grey man, to say you should you know, who am i, a grey—haired man, you should or you should not? it puts me in an impossible position. ithink, qui

stella creasy is not the first mp to take their baby into the chamber.rn in in 2019 with her daughter. the speaker said he recognised times were changing, but... this house has to be able to function professionally and without disturbance. however, sometimes there may be occasions when the chair can exercise discretion assuming that business is not to be disturbed. i accept there are differing views on this matter. indeed, i have been contacted by honourable members who have babies with a range of views. there are also likely to be some consequential matters. therefore i have asked the chair of the procedure committee if she and her committee would look into this matter and bring forward recommendations. whether or not to allow babies in the chamber is one of many questions facing parliament in its long—running challenge of balancing procedures developed over hundreds of years, with being a workplace fit for the 21st century. our top story this lunchtime. only a fraction of the people caught up in the windrush scandal have recieved the financial compensa

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stella creasy is not the chamber. stella creasy is not the first person to do that. force like this. yeah, i'm a bit baffled by the whole thing because this isn't my first child and i have previously taken very small babies, my son is 13 weeks old, so i cannot really leave him on his own and i don't have any maternity cover. so i cannot win here. i need to go in, i need to be able to speak, but i also can't leave a baby that small, that i am feeding at this point in time, on its own. but i have been told very clearly that apparently parliament has taken time to write a law that it is parliamentary faux pas and against the cortices of the house to bring a child with you, but we don't seem, at the moment, to have made it a law to wear masks, and it does seem to be a bit of a reflection of how parliament was set up for another area when perhaps most mps were men of a certain age with independent means. i believe that needs to change because i think our democracy is better when it is open to a broader range of people, so i have asked them to clarify what they are going t

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