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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan & Sam Blewett

MPs 'should be banned from bringing babies into Commons debates' despite outcry

MPs should be banned from bringing babies to Parliamentary debates, a powerful committee has said.

The Procedure Committee rejected calls to let MPs have their young children with them in the Commons chamber or Westminster Hall, if they want to "observe, initiate, speak or intervene in proceedings".

It came after an outcry last year when Labour's Stella Creasy was told off for bringing her three-month-old son Pip to a debate.

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