The moment of truth
May 19th, 2010This phoney atmosphere of happy-clappy coalition is rapidly coming to an end. The real problem is not contrasting political philosophies – a relatively soft matter – it’s rather as Macmillan so pointedly put it: ‘Events dear boy, events’. And one has already struck hard, even before we get to impasse over massive public spending cuts on 22 June.
Teresa May was left tongue-tied this morning on Radio 4 Today trying to explain why two suspected terrorists, Abid Naseer and Ahmed Faraz Khan, were not being deported back to Pakistan. It is alleged they were planning a bomb attack in Manchester a year ago, and the judge ruled that they posed a serious threat to national security; yet they couldn’t be deported under Human Rights Act rules because they were likely to face torture or execution in their home country. This immediately raises three issues that sharply divide the Tories and the LibDems. (more…)
