Tony Blair's annoyance was plain last week when Bell challenged him in the Commons to allow more freedom to his backbenchers "so that this place might become rather more the free Parliament of a free people, and rather less a rubber-stamp assembly".

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The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, asked Mr Straw to look at how the privacy afforded to Mary Bell fits with collaborating on a book about the killings.

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