30 Jun 2007

“Liberty condemns the murderous plots that have been exposed over the last few days in London and Glasgow and pays tribute to the emergency services for the calm courage that may well have saved dozens of innocent lives. We must also pay enormous tribute to the new Prime Minister, Home Secretary and First Minister. Recent years have demonstrated just how tempting it can be for democratic leaders to play a dangerous and counter-productive politics with national security. By contrast, so far at least, Mr Brown has resisted partisan posturing or a knee-jerk rush to the statute book. The new Government is demonstrating the unifying response that it rightly seeks from all of us.”