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Closed An MP will be required to experience the lives of people covered by their policies for no less than a month, before making any recommendations.

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Each MP with a department responsibility will be required to experience the lives of the people that their decisions will affect.
The period shall be no less than a month
The experience should be as near to the conditions experienced by the people affected.
No policy shall be proposed prior to that experience.

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