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avante west coast feel good travel. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to this week's new states from podcast.

We look back at the parliamentary year and we ask should MPs just stay over the summer?

Plus I'll be talking to Lawrence Scott about his new, comma, lightning. Stephen, do we have to talk about the year in Brexit?

Yeah, I mean, I think, I would say we could just talk about the year more broadly, but really that...

What is the year though? What what name the great pieces of legislation that you really

appreciated in this last parliamentary session? I'm suppose if I were an elephant I would

be fairly into the ivory ban which after a

slightly fraught political well that's nice okay so so it's been a good year for elephants.

What about it for everybody else who's not an elephant?

For everyone else who's not been an elephant, it's not been a vintage parliamentary year.

I mean we still haven't seen the domestic abuse bill for example which was promised us

ages ago. I wonder if that will come back in the autumn. People have been sort of desperately

trying to put amendments on it. For example, Stella Crese has got a campaign that she wants to add an amendment

to it to repeal the offense against the Person Act 1861, which would sweep away the original legislation

that makes abortion illegal and leave everybody to make their own independent frameworks on that.

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