Parliament is supposed to be alive to shifting public concerns and new sources of information. But it doesn’t always work like that
Owen Riches has supported Ipswich Town since he could first stand. Or rather sit. It was being made to sit that launched him, aged 17, into an investigation of safe standing at football that has landed him in a parliamentary debate this week.
Riches looked at the evidence from the German Bundesliga league and the safety record of Celtic, where safe standing is allowed, and started a No 10 petition that passed 100,000 signatures. As a result, there will be a debate in parliament on Monday, with safe standing championed by opposition MPs and the government benches already indicating that they are coming around to the evidence.
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