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Fiona Mactaggart

Fiona Mactaggart was the Labour MP for Slough from 1997 to 2017

April 2014

  • Narendra Modi

    If Modi is elected, it will bode ill for India's future

    Salman Rushdie, Imran Khan, John McDonnell, Fiona Mactaggart, Pragna Patel, Jayati Ghosh, Suresh Grover

    Open letter:
    Salman Rushdie, Imran Khan, John McDonnell, Fiona Mactaggart, Pragna Patel, Jayati Ghosh, Suresh Grover:
    Modi refuses to accept any responsibility or to apologise for the horrifying events that took place in Gujarat in 2002

November 2008

  • Society is all the crueller for prostitution

    Fiona Mactaggart

    Fiona Mactaggart: The government is right; we must use the law to protect victims of the sex trade

September 2008

  • Labour must be bold now

    Fiona Mactaggart

    Fiona Mactaggart: We do have a problem at the helm – and we must act before the Tory lead becomes gold-plated

January 2008

  • Buyers beware

    Fiona Mactaggart

    Fiona Mactaggart: The laws that tackle prostitution target the women selling sex. It's time the focus was shifted on to their male clients

March 2005

  • It will still be OK to ridicule religion

    Fiona Mactaggart
    Fiona Mactaggart: Our law is not about extending blasphemy - it's about protecting communities from hatred.

January 2005

  • Islam race and British identity
    Making Hussein safe

    Fiona Mactaggart
    Religious hatred laws are needed to stop violence, damage and pain, writes Fiona Mactaggart.

November 2003

  • The eyes have it

    Fiona Mactaggart
    Fiona Mactaggart As the former chairwoman of Liberty, I was against ID cards. But new technology has changed my mind.