Why David Davis Is Right to Make a Stand

Mail on SundayJune 15, 2008

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LAST week revealed the worst and best of politics. I watched a mighty Labour parliamentary rebellion reduced to nearly half its original size with the aid of inducements, emotional blackmail and downright bullying of the party system. And that's without examining the public finances of Northern Ireland.

One Home Office Minister was quick to dismiss fears that some MPs might have voted as they did for reasons that had little to do with national security. 'Suppositions and assertions!' he exclaimed on national television.

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Why David Davis Is Right to Make a Stand

So suspicion is not enough to question the integrity of politicians but it is enough, they say, to incarcerate an ordinary person for 42 days without charge.

Yet while the Government was securing its vote in the back offices and corridors of power, opponents of the detention plan were winn...

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