Home Office wants to save face
Ministers have paved the way for further concessions on plans to hold terrorist suspects for up to 42 days without charge in an attempt to avert another rebellion by Labour MPs, reports The Times.
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7:57 pm, May 17, 2008
1. Ken Stephenson
It appears to me that some people care more for the rights of terrorists than the lives of people who they ruin. If the police say they need 90 days they should be given 90 days. Labour MPs are playing with innocent peoples lives. Conservative MPs are being their usual hypocritical selves.
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