Sleepwalking to 42 day detention

[AboveTheSalt]

Originally Posted by Mark

Looks like the bill just sleepwalked out of town. For now. Whether its zombified remains will turn up at a later date is another matter. I would suspect not - at least not this side of an election - unless there's another major attack.

Yup, excellent news:

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has told MPs that plans to extend terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill. It follows a heavy defeat for the government in the House of Lords, which threw out the plan by 309 votes to 118. Ms Smith said instead the measure would be in a separate piece of legislation to be brought to Parliament if needed. (Link)

I'm quite sure that things would have gone the way they did in the Lords whether the Leeds protest had happened or not. I also very much suspect that once the bill was rejected in the Lords, the Home Secretary would have made the announcement that she has made.