A serious threat to Our Way Of Life: Inquests deemed a risk to national security by the government may be held in secret under proposed powers to come before the House of Lords this autumn. This undermines the “right to a public inquiry into a death – a centuries-old mainstay of British justice”. Elsewhere, local government and health authorities will be given the right to access email and internet records, under new surveillance powers to be introduced next year.
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The Scottish National Party have won a Labour stronghold in Glasgow, recording a near 23% swing. This was Labour’s 25th safest seat in Britain.
This election defeat for New Labour could spell the end of Gordon Brown’s premiership; and, perhaps, bring the end of the Union a small step closer to becoming reality. (Although there have been such predictions before.)
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Gary Younge links the the rise of the BNP with the decline of New Labour.
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David Miliband, the foreign secretary, is ready to lead a neo-Blairite coup to ’save’ the New Labour project.
Miliband’s foreign policy puts him at odds with views expressed by Barack Obama.
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