Private Member's Bills
Currently sponsoring European Convention on Human Rights (Withdrawal) Bill 2010–11: a Bill to make provision for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Bone has previously sponsored a Private Member's Bill to remove whips meaning MPs would be able to vote according to their own wishes rather than on party lines.
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Of health and toilets, private and corporal glee,”
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