The liberal Conservatives
The Tories Find Their Inner Liberal"'NO free man shall be taken, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed or exiled or in any way ruined, nor will we pursue him or send after him, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.' That’s what the Magna Carta declared in 1215. In other words, the king couldn’t put a man in prison and throw away the key without a trial.
"Now, however, the British are in the midst of a political scrimmage about how long suspects can be 'taken' and held without charges...
"And who is proposing the extension? The ruling Labor Party... And the opposition? The Conservative Party, which has traditionally accused Labor of being soft on crime..."
Labels: policy, politics, rule-of-law, UK
posted by Ken Wedding @ 10:12 AM
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23 November 2007
Former lord chief justice attacks detention plans
"Lord Woolf, the former lord chief justice, today added his voice to the growing list of high-profile figures opposed to an extension to the amount of time that terror suspects can be held without charge..."
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