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Nick Clegg speech

Britain has lost the moral authority on human rights - Clegg

Wed, 10 Dec 2008

Britain has lost the authority to defend human rights abroad because liberty at home has been so badly abused, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg will say today.

Nick Clegg speech

Clegg: Britain has lost the moral authority on human rights

Wed, 10 Dec 2008

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg declared that Britain has lost its moral authority on human rights issues in a hard-hitting attack on the Government’s stance on immigration.

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Freedom is taking a battering under kneejerk New Labour - Nick Clegg writes

Wed, 10 Dec 2008

Jack Straw's attack on the Human Rights Act is sly populism of the worst kind, and in keeping with his party's statist tradition

Nick Clegg Bournemouth 2008

Britain has lost the moral authority on human rights - Clegg

Wed, 10 Dec 2008

In a speech to Amnesty International to mark Human Rights Day, Nick Clegg said Britain had lost the authority to defend human rights abroad because liberty at home has been so badly abused.

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Straw using Human Rights Act as a scapegoat - Howarth

Mon, 08 Dec 2008

Commenting on Jack Straw’s calls for the Human Rights Act to overhaul, Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesperson, David Howarth said: "This is just the type of authoritarian populism which is typical of new Labour."

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Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

Mon, 01 Dec 2008

The Liberal Democrats support post-charge questioning but oppose extending the period of detention without charge to 42 days

House of Lords

Lords Report - Human Rights Committee and Immigration Rules

Tue, 25 Nov 2008

Last week in the Lords Liberal Democrat peers challenged the Government's slow response to a report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights and recent changes to immigration rules.

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Government clean up on Guantanamo too little too late - Davey

Fri, 31 Oct 2008

Commenting on Jacqui Smith’s request to the Attorney General to investigate possible criminal wrongdoing by British and US security services at Guantanmo Bay, Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary, Edward Davey said: “The Home Secretary must make a statement to Parliament given the serious charge that British MI5 officers were involved in criminal offences."