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Counter-Terrorism Bill

Clearly, the Government have rowed back from their original 90 days, but there has always been the qualification that it is possible to restrict the liberties protected by the convention—the words are there—when something amounts to a public emergency threatening the life of the nation, so why does not the Home Secretary rely on that, like all other countries do? Why have we seen every few years under this Government an increase in powers of the state over the citizen, when no other comparable country equally threatened has thought it necessary to move in the same direction?