In the face of government attacks on our civil liberties, we must protest
Over a year since the first lockdown, we could write a thesis on the government failures. The failure…
CHIS (criminal conduct) bill
Labour needs to think about the merit of any legislation, not the “Red Wall”
Leader Keir Starmer has agreed at the last minute that the Labour Party should vote against the police,…
18 Labour peers break whip in bid to ban murder, torture, rape in ‘spycops’ bill
18 Labour peers have defied the whip to vote in favour of reinserting an amendment that would specifically…
Chakrabarti tells Labour sources briefing against her over CHIS bill to “grow up”
Shami Chakrabarti, a Labour peer who was shadow attorney general until last year, has told Labour sources briefing…
Chakrabarti: “If the CHIS bill passes, a real Rubicon will have been crossed”
“If this bill passes unamended, as it did in the House of Commons, I think a real Rubicon…
Why I’m opposed to the covert human intelligence sources bill
Below is the full text of Baroness Chakrabarti’s speech on the covert human intelligence sources (criminal conduct) bill…
Labour’s constructive opposition approach comes under pressure
20 Labour MPs defied the party whip last night to take a stand against the covert human intelligence…
