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Mental Health Bill [Lords]

I greatly respect the hon. Gentleman’s position—he and I have been heavily involved in this issue from the early days of this legislation—but the fact is that the majority do not agree with him. The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Medical Association do not agree with him. There are some psychiatrists who do agree, including a predictable dozen whom the Minister troops out at every opportunity to talk to us, as if they represent the entire psychiatric field. But they are, with perfectly good intentions, in a minority—