Tories: Vote was decisive

Tuesday, 14, Oct 2008 12:00

Pauline Neville-Jones, shadow security minister, comments on the vote against 42-days:

"The vote was decisive. The proposal to extend pre-charge detention failed on three significant grounds: necessity, desirability and practicability.

"On all sides of the House of Lords the majority view - drawing on significant experience in policing, security and the law - was that these provisions should be completely removed.

"The government produced no evidence to support an extension to 42 days. The extension would have been disproportionate and, in any event, so unworkable that the police and prosecutors would not have used it."