"hanger and flogger" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994 April 25, Joan Seccombe, Baroness Seccombe, “Criminal Justice And Public Order Bill”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 487:",
          "text": "I am certainly not a hanger and flogger and I hate the occasions when we have to deprive someone of their liberty, but sometimes that has to be done.",
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          "ref": "2001 August 30, Nicholas Watt, “Clarke dismisses Tory rival as a 'hanger and flogger'”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Kenneth Clarke yesterday intensified his assault on Iain Duncan Smith when he dismissed his rival for the Tory leadership as a rightwing \"hanger and flogger\".",
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          "text": "Later, as shadow home secretary, with her devout Catholicism informing her political positions, she [Ann Widdecombe] had opposed gay marriage, opposed the equalization of the age of consent for men, opposed abortion, but hadn't opposed the death penalty – a hanger and a flogger, she wanted that brought back.",
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        "A person who is in favour of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment."
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        "(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favour of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment."
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        "(UK politics, derogatory) A person who is in favour of severe criminal penalties, especially capital punishment or corporal punishment."
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