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Terrorism Bill

: The Government might be storing up a problem. A number of Governments with whom we are generally friendly regard some of their own citizens as terrorists, while the British Government have taken a more ambiguous view. In the past, the British Government have said ““We cannot deal with these people while they are resident in this country, because they have not broken any British law.”” If this law is passed, will there not be intense pressure on the British Government to prosecute a range of people who are disapproved of in those other countries, although we would prefer not to do so? The Attorney-General will be in an incredibly invidious position.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
438 c1042-3 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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