Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne said of Damian Green’s arrest: I was frankly shocked and astonished by this. It will have a chilling effect on what MPs are able to do. Getting information into the public domain … clearly of the public interest is absolutely a key part. I find [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Commenting on the one third rise in admissions to hospitals due to knife wounds since 1997, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Hospital admission figures can’t be massaged and they show that the Government’s strategy for tackling knife crime is not working.” Chris Huhne continued, saying: “The solution has to be more knife arches, [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
Labour’s proposed method for electing police authority members would give two thirds of seats on the authorities to the Conservatives on just 38% of the vote, according to Electoral Reform Society analysis commissioned by Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne. The key points in the Electoral Reform Society analysis are: Ø Based on the 2007 [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
In the day before the Chancellor’s long awaited pre-budget report Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said that “bold measures” were needed in tomorrow’s pre-budget report and that tax cuts should targeted at middle and lower earners. He said: “I want to see bold measures and that clearly means that the Chancellor has [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Commenting on reports that ID card holders could face fines of up to £1000 if they fail to keep personal details up to date, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “It is becoming clear how draconian the punishments will be for those that want no part in the Government’s illiberal and unnecessary identity [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
Commenting on claims that major drug barons may be escaping investigation because of the police’s funding arrangements, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “People will rightly be concerned that the police are going after soft targets rather than top drug barons.” Chris Huhne continued, saying: “The Home Office must ensure that money seized [...]
Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Responding to Linda Costelloe-Baker’s comments that nearly 300,000 short-term visas are wrongly approved each year, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Labour’s increasingly bullish comments about immigration control are completely undermined by revelations like this.” Chris Huhne went on to say: “The fact that we don’t even count these people out of the country heightens [...]...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
Chris Huhne:Extraditing conspiracy-theorist hacker Gary McKinnon, who has been diagnosed with a form of autism, is inhumane
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Commenting on the Home Affairs Select Committee report on Policing in the 21st Century, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “This report is right to highlight how mistaken the Government has been to try to run policing through Whitehall targets, which have proved an expensive disaster.” Chris Huhne went on to say: “The [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Commenting on today’s announcement that workers at two UK airports are to be given ID cards, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Ministers are choosing a limited number of guinea pigs at two smaller airports because they are aware of how unpopular ID cards are.” Chris Huhne continued, saying: “The Government is too [...]
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Today's House Points column from Liberal Democrat News . A moose in the lobby Chris Huhne told us in his speech at the Bournemouth Conference that this government has introduced 3,600 new criminal offences since it came to power in 1997. "Labour’s new legislation takes the same amount of shelf space as 200 copies of War and Peace," he said. "And it is twice as heavy as John Prescott." So it’s no surprise...
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Commenting on new drugs statistics released by the Government today, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Despite these impressive figures, it is clear that we are only scratching the surface of the drug problem in this country.” Chris Huhne went on to say: “Recent research has shown that increasing seizures have had little [...]
Steve Beasant Liberal Democrat (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Commenting on the announcement that hand-held fingerprint scanners could be available to every police force in England and Wales by next year, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “The existence of a reliable system of checking fingerprints against a criminal database is yet another reason why the ID cards scheme will be [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Lib Dem Shadow Home Secretary Chris Huhne yesterday penned a piece for The Independent setting out his views on the use of a European Arrest Warrant to detain the extremist Frederick Toben for prosecution in Germany for holocaust denial. Dr Toben’s views about the Holocaust are offensive, ugly and wrong. But freedom of speech is [...]
Liberal Democrat Voice (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
Chris Huhne writes for The Guardian today: There are clear dangers in managing the public finances over the next few years, but nothing merits the sort of intemperate scaremongering that Cameron and George Osborne have been whipping up. Cameron said on Monday: “We ought now to be cutting people’s taxes to put money back into the [...]
