Living Costs Deduction

Of course there should be no 10-year cap on compensation for the wrongfully imprisoned. But in wishing Andy Malkinson every success, consider that you would never be prosecuted for anything that had in the meantime ceased to be a criminal offence. Under the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act, nothing that was done to Mr Malkinson would be illegal now. Labour abstained on that Bill, and it would not repeal that Act, just as it would not repeal the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act that it did not oppose, so it is hardly likely to lift the 10-year cap, either. 

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Keir Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.