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In recent history, we can see numerous potentially popular progressive initiatives that were sidelined, suppressed or watered down through a combination of conservative fear-mongering and establishment resistance.

Some island states also abstained and said the deal was a watered down version of what they hoped for.

However, this pledge was then watered down, with Labour's manifesto only promising to consult on proposals for an alternative second chamber.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has insisted local inquiries into grooming gangs in five towns are still going ahead despite claims the plans have been watered down.

A law named in honour of victims of the Hillsborough disaster and aimed at preventing cover-ups must be "all or nothing", campaigners have said, after concerns the bill might be watered down.