Saturday, January 29, 2005

Charles Clarke's CV / spiked-liberties, 27 Jan 2005

http://www.spiked-online.com/articles/0000000CA8A4.htm
Jamie Douglass
"With David Blunkett's departure as home secretary, some thought we would to enter a new era of tolerance. The former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley has already defended Blunkett's replacement Charles Clarke as a man who has 'twice displayed a weakness for civil liberties 'obviously grateful for the opportunity to choose the libertarian option' So is Mr Clarke a woolly liberal in authoritarian lupine garb, or are we stuck with the dictatorial legacy of Mr B? "