Jacqui Smith’s dilemna
42 day detention plan should be dropped
It now seems that senior figures in the Metropolitan Police are not quite so eager to fully press for an extension to the current 28 day limit for suspects to be held without charge, this leaves Home Secretary Jacqui Smith facing a dilemna.
Does she press ahead with the plans to increase the limit to 42 days cobbled together with Gordon Brown, and thus provoke a major fight within the Labour Party and with the DPP and civil liberty campaigners, or does she concede in the hope that people will see this as one fight not worth taking on?
A little political expediency should ensure that the plan is dropped like a hot rivet.
With the polls as they are…….
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But will Brown’s control-freakery allow him to backpedal so soon after the 10p turnaround?
If they had any sense, they’d have dropped this eons ago - right after ID cards.
Comment by Michael — May 11, 2008 @ 12:59 pm
It needs to go back to 72 hours! Anything longer makes a mockery of the English legal system.
Comment by Antipholus Papps — May 12, 2008 @ 1:22 pm