That execrable scrote Chris Grayling, Tory Shadow Home Secretary, has this to say about his plan for detention without trial... Our police should have powers to go straight to a magistrate and get an order against that troublemaker confining them to their homes for up to a month - except for during school hours. And if they break that curfew order they should expect to find themselves in the cells...

Home Secretary has outlined new general curfew laws which would make it easier for police in a bid to prevent any future riots and looting.

Shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, today called for the police to be given the power to ground young troublemakers in their homes.

On a visit to Clapham Junction and to Lavender Hill Police station, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper MP will meet with police officers of all ranks and with local residents to discuss the ongoing implications of last month’s riots.

The Sunday Times reports that nine out of 10 parents would back a curfew to prevent their children going out after dark. The poll follows news that the home affairs select committee of the House of Commons will say this week that a national curfew on young teenagers could curb anti-social and violent behaviour. Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the committee, said: "I have sympathy with the view t...

When the Mayor of London dismissed Labour's police chief he made it plain that the Home Secretary was in office but not in power. She could no more raise a hand to stop Mr Johnson from ridding us of a politicised and dangerous officer, than stop a London bus. Now there are denials at the highest levels that she knew anything of the arrest of a Member of Parliament and the Speaker's authorisation o...

A campaign to enforce the ban on the sale of knives to teenagers is to be launched today by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith. Under the plan, 21 big retailers have agreed a package of measures including more training for staff and greater theft prevention to stop knives falling into the hands of teenagers. Other measures include displaying signs in stores announcing the ban, putting up reminders t...

The Guardian reports that Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve is to propose amendments to the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act so that it is simpler for the police to conduct surveillance on those suspected of non-terrorist offences.

I hold no particular truck for the Tories, especially not the moderate, centrist ones. But the news of the arrest of Damian Green for doing his job as the Shadow Home Secretary by counter-terrorist police is nothing short of an outrage. The timing of the arrest is also remarkably suspicious. It's no wonder people have lost faith in the Metropolitan Police. Is there no depth to which New Labour wil...

Chris Grayling, the Tory shadow home secretary, recently made a well publicized yet infantile statement about the similarities between parts of the UK and the areas of Baltimore * portrayed in the fictional hit US TV serial The Wire. By doing so Grayling made it clear if the Conservatives gain power at next years general election, they intend to carry on where New Labour left off and step up the c...