Charles Clarke
Charles Clarke
Charles Rodway Clarkeis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006...
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But I can't. They're here. And in this circumstance it is right that our police and security services give proper thought to how we deal with a threat that comes from that area.
happy police relation sir
I am very happy with the conduct, not only of Sir Ian Blair, but the whole Metropolitan Police in relation to the inquiry,
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In future, the recording of biometrics, such as fingerprints, iris patterns or facial image means that we will have a much stronger way of linking identity to the person. A national ID card will be a robust, secure way to establish that identities are real, not fabricated.
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I want to encourage that culture rather than the other way round.
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They have sent names, we are considering them and they are currently on our warnings index which means there will be a ministerial decision on any individual case of a case coming into those countries,
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We have to defend our values of respect of tolerance of freedom and democracy against any who wish to destroy or replace them with some other doctrine, particularly if they seek to use violence to promote their ambition.
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Following months of diplomatic work we now have good reason to believe that we can get the necessary assurances from the countries to which we will return the deportees so that they will not be subject to torture or ill-treatment, ... powers to deport individuals and detain them pending deportation.
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There was a determination from all colleagues around the table ... to reach agreement,
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They were documenting something that two, three, four generations from now they were going to tell about in pride.
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Now, at the end, my judgement turned out to be incorrect and we lost the vote.
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Proscription is an important power, and not one to be used lightly, ... The list of proscribed organizations is kept under constant review and after careful consideration of all the relevant factors I am satisfied that these groups should now be added to it.
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Our equipment we thought was fine. But when you get out there and start fighting it for 20 or 30 hours straight, equipment starts failing. And so we need a lot of repair on some of these older trucks.
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If we could get one that could get there faster than it, then we would be able to stop the fire from spreading quickly before it gets a head start on us.
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I have concluded that the balance now is not right and that it needs to be closely examined in the heightened threat that we now face,