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Tom Watson is Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East.
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Wonderful Tessa
Your weekly update from Tom Watson MP, deputy leader of the Labour Party. This week started in the saddest of ways, waking up on Sunday morning to hear that my dear friend Tessa Jowell had passed away. As I said in my statement she was a passionate...
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Dignity in death
Everyone deserves a dignified death. That means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For more and more Brits it has meant a peaceful death at the time of their choosing at Dignitas in Switzerland. Last year one Brit went there every eight days. I recently...
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Legal advice on UK Air Strikes on Syria
Over the weekend I commissioned advice from Professor Dapo Akande, Professor of Public International Law at Oxford University and one of the UK’s pre-eminent legal experts on international law, on the legality of the strikes on Syria carried...
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