Tony Bell, chief executive of the Alder Hey hospital trust, said he agreed it had slowed debate but that that debate was happening now.

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Acting chief executive of the hospital, Tony Bell, has said he was "deeply sorry" for the hospital's actions over a four year period, but added that pathologist Professor Dick van Velzen must now explain his comments.

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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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