Keeping suspects in police detention for three months would be radically out of step with our European and Commonwealth partners. Where other countries hold suspects for long periods there are safeguards in the form of...

It is good that the home secretary has seen sense on the deportation rules.

What the public wants is sensible measures that will tackle terrorism, but they don’t want to see the very fundamental principles of justice and liberty broken away.

If Amnesty has concerns about torture then they will know better than a minister in Whitehall what is really going on, and we should listen to their concerns.

It is a disgrace that the Government should choose the day on which the Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned to conceal these findings.

If the prime minister had wanted to show real action he would have announced a suspension to the licensing legislation.

The quick powers Mr Blair is issuing for the police to give instant justice are not as effective as he is making out.

What are the kind of words that somebody would use which could then be implied to be incitement? This will be hard legislation to draft.

Real opposition and principled opposition is about making a stand on this key issue of holding suspects without charge.

As things stand, I don’t think the case has been made for moving beyond the 14-day period we already have,

We broadly welcome the use of powers to deport people, as long as the individuals involved have a right to appeal and the case for deportation is reasonable.

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

There can be no justification for the bombings that took place in London.Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq is no excuse for Muslim extremism.However, it would be wrong for the Government to deny that...

If the numbers of searches continue to increase at this rate it will create tensions in communities, and could turn the public against the police.

the government must not hand the terrorists a victory by taking away long held liberties and principles of justice.

I think they are in serious trouble,