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| David Cameron sets out anti-extremism strategy - politics live | |
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| The Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron spoke to the Today programme about the Wilson Doctrine earlier this morning. He insisted that he was not in favour of protecting privilege for MPs. | |
| I’m in favour of protecting privacy for everybody else and what the Wilson Doctrine was seeking to achieve was to ensure that you could have conversations with journalists. A constituent could blow the whistle to me or any other MP and not be at risk of having their telephone tapped, which in the digital age is a much more likely occurrence.... | |
| You should get rid of the Wilson Doctrine if we could replace it with a proper digital bill of rights for everybody. So my privacy is no more important than anybody’s listening to this programme and that’s absolutely critical. | |
| Farron predicted that the government was likely to revive the Snooper’s Charter, which the Liberal Democrats blocked in the coalition. | |
| My concern is that what government is doing is heading in exactly the opposite direction, that if they bring back the Snooper’s Charter, which is what they are planning to do ... If that happens then you’re going to find not only the security services massively hampered by having so much data they won’t be able to find the people they need to find, but you also have a massive blow to traditional British liberties... | |
| I take the view that not only is that counter-productive, because if you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t triple the size of the haystack, you should also make sure we understand that when we’re trying to fight against terrorists you don’t go giving away your traditional freedoms that Britain has fought for so hard over the years. | |
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| Speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, home secretary Theresa May was cross-questioned about the extension of powers to cancel passports. | |
| If you talk to, as I have, parents of young people who have been on the path to radicalisation, or perhaps parents, as I have heard from, who have children who have gone out to Syria, some of whom have died out there fighting, then they are saying that they want to see more action taken. They want themselves, within their communities to be able to take more action... | |
| I’m not pretending that any of this is easy. Of course this is difficult, but government has a choice here. We can either say ‘well, this is difficult so let’s not do anything’ or we can say ‘well, actually it is difficult, but this is so important that we need to take action.’... | |
| When I talk to people in the muslim community who are out there themselves working against extremism they will welcome support and welcome the fact that the government is saying this is an important issue that we need to deal with. | |
| May also refused to be drawn into condemning the allegations against former Conservative home secretary Leon Brittan – who was cleared of rape allegations – saying instead that she thought it was important that sexual abuse victims weren’t deterred from coming forward. | |
| The decisions in relation to looking into allegations are for the police to take. Somebody had come forward with an accusation and what we have seen in recent months and continuing is more people coming forward with allegations of sexual abuse of various sorts ... I think it’s very important that we allow people to come forward with their allegations. | |
| Updated at 9.00am BST | |
| 8.34am BST08:34 | 8.34am BST08:34 |
| Good Morning. | Good Morning. |
| David Cameron is due to give a speech today spelling out more details of his anti-extremism strategy as well as making the case for two new pieces of law – the investigatory powers bill and a counter-terrorism bill. | David Cameron is due to give a speech today spelling out more details of his anti-extremism strategy as well as making the case for two new pieces of law – the investigatory powers bill and a counter-terrorism bill. |
| As part of the overall strategy, he will extend the powers of parents to cancel their children’s passports if they are worried that their children may be about to travel to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State. The powers that currently apply to under-16s will now be rolled out to all those under-18. | As part of the overall strategy, he will extend the powers of parents to cancel their children’s passports if they are worried that their children may be about to travel to Syria or Iraq to join Islamic State. The powers that currently apply to under-16s will now be rolled out to all those under-18. |
| There will also be new measures to automatically bar convicted terrorists from working with children and vulnerable people. Cameron will also announce that suspected jihadi returning from Syria and Iraq will be forced to attend classes to address their support for extremist ideology. | There will also be new measures to automatically bar convicted terrorists from working with children and vulnerable people. Cameron will also announce that suspected jihadi returning from Syria and Iraq will be forced to attend classes to address their support for extremist ideology. |
| Home Secretary Theresa May has just been speaking on Today and I’ll bring you a summary shortly. | Home Secretary Theresa May has just been speaking on Today and I’ll bring you a summary shortly. |
| There will be an emergency debate on the Wilson Doctrine – a convention that the UK’s intelligence agencies will not eavesdrop on members of parliament – after around 2.30pm. The Psychoactive Substances Bill will get its second reading after that. | There will be an emergency debate on the Wilson Doctrine – a convention that the UK’s intelligence agencies will not eavesdrop on members of parliament – after around 2.30pm. The Psychoactive Substances Bill will get its second reading after that. |
| I’ll be covering for Andrew this week, bringing you breaking political news as it happens, as well as bringing you the best reaction, comment and analysis from the web. | I’ll be covering for Andrew this week, bringing you breaking political news as it happens, as well as bringing you the best reaction, comment and analysis from the web. |
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