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Nick Clegg
Stop-And-Search Appeal Rejected
calls to
scrap bad laws Members of the public will be given the right to nominate unpopular laws they want scrapped, Nick Clegg has announced the Your Freedom initiative intended to begin a shift of power away from the state to the people. The “radically different” approach is part of the Coalition’s attempt to redress the balance between the citizen and the state, Mr Clegg argues. He says it is not for Government to tell people “how to live their lives” and that civil liberties should be restored and laws stifling businesses abandoned. As part of Mr Clegg’s initiative, Telegraph.co.uk is providing a Your Freedom link to the Cabinet Office website where people can put forward their suggestions for which laws should be targeted. In his article, Mr Clegg says: “Today we are taking an unprecedented step. Based on the belief that it is people, not policy-makers, who know best, we are asking the people of Britain to tell us how you want to see your freedom restored.
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The Home Office says it is reviewing counter-terrorism laws after a European court decided the government could not appeal against a ruling that said random stop and searches were illegal. The European Court of Human Rights came to its decision in January and it has now insisted it cannot be challenged. It followed a case brought by two people stopped by
police near an arms fair in London in 2003. Civil liberties groups say stopand-search should be scrapped. Campaigners say black and Asian people are targeted disproportionately by police, operating under the provisions of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which gives officers the power to stop them without grounds for suspicion.
Foreign Secretary William Hague is seeking to increase UK influence over the European Union by pushing for more British officials in senior EU posts. In a speech, he will accuse Labour of neglecting to promote the national interest during 13 years in power. He will argue a "generation gap" exists, with UK representation in Brussels declining and input waning. Mr Hague will also call for a new focus on improving links with developing countries like India, China and Brazil. Speaking at the Foreign Office in London, Mr Hague will say that numbers of British officials at director level in the European Commission have fallen by one-third since 2007. He will add that, although it represents 12% of the EU population, the UK has just 1.8% of staff in entry-level positions at the commission. The speech the first of four setting out Mr Hague's foreign policy vision - is being billed as his most significant since taking over in May, BBC diplomatic correspondent James Robbins says. A call for a stronger and more ambitious Foreign Office will delight many British diplomats who think they have often been marginalised or ignored, our correspondent added.
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