Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a second humiliating climbdown, Jacqui Smith dropped controversial plans to hold some inquests in secret, excluding even family members.
Labourhome (Free subscription) | yesterday
Do you know what? I really think Jacqui Smith actually believes some of this stuff. Memo to Jacqui, you don't to have to act like a macho man to prove that you can do the job. In fact, were you to actually display some female emphaty about some of the REAL issues facing British citizens today, you would probably win more support. Where is your female and legal emphathy with rape...
open... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jacqui Smith has set out plans to give the police and security services more powers to gather phone and e-mail data. But wait : "I want this to be combined with a well-informed debate characterised by openness, rather than mere opinion, by reason and reasonableness," she told the IPPR. Well, that's alright, then. Except: "What we will be proposing will be options which follow the key...
SAOIRSE32 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... been due to be put before MPs in the Communications Data Bill next month. However, in a speech, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced that she was delaying the Bill in order to expand the extent of surveillance powers open to the security services, while consulting further on the best way to win public support for the plan. The delay marks the third Government U-turn in as many...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
... been due to be put before MPs in the Communications Data Bill next month. However, in a speech, Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced that she was delaying the Bill in order to expand the extent of surveillance powers open to the security services, while consulting further on the best way to win public support for the plan. The delay marks the third Government U-turn in as many...
Liberal England (Free subscription) | yesterday
... days, Kitty Ussher MP warned that opponents would be left with ‘blood on their hands.’ This time Jacqui Smith has accused us of ignoring ‘the terrorism threat, for fear of taking a tough but necessary decision.’ But this is nonsense, as history teaches us an entirely different lesson. Governments that go over the top by implementing disproportionate and repressive measures lose the...
The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Here's video of Jacqui Smith's contemptible performance in the Commons last night. Basically, she says that if you don't support giving the police carte blanche then you're on the terrorists' side. At the very least, if you dare to question the government you don't care about security. And of course all you yoghurt-munching civil liberties pansies also don't care about the liberty of...
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
There was further humiliation for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today after the Government was forced to drop plans that would allow them to order inquests in private.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
There was further humiliation for Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today after the Government was forced to drop plans that would allow them to order inquests in private.
Radio 4 - Today (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Civil liberties campaigners are celebrating after the government was forced to shelve the most controversial part of its counter-terrorism policy. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says that opposition parties have refused to engage with the bill and "could result in catastrophe".
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has accused opponents of Gordon Brown's plans to extend pre-charge terror detention to 42 days of ignoring the terrorism threat facing Britain.
Daily Mail News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has accused opponents of Gordon Brown's plans to extend pre-charge terror detention to 42 days of ignoring the terrorism threat facing Britain.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
Emergency powers to detain terror suspects for 42 days may yet be needed to protect Britain from catastrophe Jacqui Smith has insisted.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - The government will rush through emergency legislation to allow police to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge in the event of a serious threat or an attack, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said on Tuesday.
Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Mr Speaker, I come to the House tonight to set out the Government’s position on the Counter-Terrorism Bill. The provisions in this Bill have always been about protecting the British people from the serious threat we face from terrorism. And my approach has always been to strike the right balance between protecting national security and safeguarding the liberty of the individual. That balance is a precious...
