Saturday, April 19, 2008

Labour conference fringe: Smith enters bleeding heart's den for detention debate

Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti gave Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, and the Lord High Chancellor, as Jack Straw is now officially known, a warm welcome to what she called the "bleeding heart's den" for a polite but incisive exchange over the government's new counterterrorism legislation.

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