Terror bill climbdown by Labour
UK: Terror bill climbdown by Labour
Guardian [UK]
03/01/05
Tony Blair's government last night sustained a significant blow to its authority when 60 Labour MPs, including four ex-cabinet ministers, rebelled against Charles Clarke's plans to impose control orders on terrorist suspects -- despite last minute concessions -- and helped slash their party's 161-vote majority to just 14. ... In a significant climbdown to the angry cross-party coalition of MPs who were vociferously refusing to grant ministers powers to detain suspects without judicial approval, Mr Clarke announced that judges will, after all, decide such cases in his new prevention of terrorism bill -- not himself, as the bill currently proposes...
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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Guardian [UK]
03/01/05
Tony Blair's government last night sustained a significant blow to its authority when 60 Labour MPs, including four ex-cabinet ministers, rebelled against Charles Clarke's plans to impose control orders on terrorist suspects -- despite last minute concessions -- and helped slash their party's 161-vote majority to just 14. ... In a significant climbdown to the angry cross-party coalition of MPs who were vociferously refusing to grant ministers powers to detain suspects without judicial approval, Mr Clarke announced that judges will, after all, decide such cases in his new prevention of terrorism bill -- not himself, as the bill currently proposes...
http://tinyurl.com/43jm3
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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