Andy Burnham Shadow Home Secretary in the commons yesterday

I rise to speak to the motion in my name and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends. At the start, I should thank Sir Paul Beresford, who is about to leave the Chamber. Old alliances forged over the cause of water fluoridation do, in the end, stand one in good stead. I am grateful to him.

Sir Paul Beresford (Con), MP for Mole Valley. Minister at Dept of the Environment 1994-97. Dentist by profession: “A dentist in New Zealand told me that before fluoridation, filling teeth heroically was like trying to fill a bath with the plug out - it was hopeless. When fluoridation arrived, that changed.” 

Good news he's going. Did he listen to  one dentist to convince him? If the result of fluoridation was that dramatic would we have any chance of stopping the practice. Would we want to.