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Simon Hoggart:

[I]t was left to the much-derided Ming Campbell to make the best intervention about the prime minister’s statement on security. “Consensus,” he said, “cannot be achieved at the cost of principle … of course the public has a right to security, but that includes security from the power of the state.”

There’s no answer to that, and he didn’t get one.


Posted on July 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am

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  1. Si on 27.07.2007 at 00:32 Permalink | Reply

    hear here.

  2. Mike on 27.07.2007 at 08:06 Permalink | Reply

    Where?

  3. ejh (59 comments.) on 27.07.2007 at 08:20 Permalink | Reply

    There on the stair.

  4. Unpremeditated (4 comments.) on 27.07.2007 at 12:59 Permalink | Reply

    right there?

  5. ejh (435 comments.) on 27.07.2007 at 17:37 Permalink | Reply

    A little mouse with clogs on

  6. Philip (240 comments.) on 27.07.2007 at 19:40 Permalink | Reply

    Well, I declare.

  7. ejh (59 comments.) on 27.07.2007 at 19:56 Permalink | Reply

    Going clip-clippety-clop on the stair.

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