Over at the Independent, Lib Dem shadow home secretary Chris Huhne argues that the real bias at broadcasters is not against the Conservatives, but the Liberal Democrats. Here’s an excerpt: The evidence of such bias is compelling and persistent. Broadcasters repeatedly ignore a third view on matters of the day. Even where Labour and Conservative views

The Liberal Democrats today published their Freedom Bill, designed to "roll back the draconian laws passed by successive Labour and Conservative administrations". You can read more about it on the party's Freedom Bill website. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem shadow home secretary, sets out the case for the bill in a Guardian article: The Liberal Democrats are determined to resist the slow death by a...

Please send to huhnec@parliament.uk Open Letter to Chris Huhne MP Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor Dear Mr. Huhne, On 7 August 2008 you visited the Castlehaven Community Center in Camden Town to outline new plans by the Liberal Democrat Party to tackle youth crime. During this visit you said: "Ministers know that programmes to div...

Commenting on Jacqui Smith’s u-turn on making people convicted of carrying knives visit the victims of knife crime in hospital, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Thank heavens the Home Secretary has seen sense. This idea is not just bonkers, but has been tried, tested and failed in the United States. "She’s on her way to a perfectly executed u-turn, and a coupl...

Commenting on the Home Secretary’s proposal to scare young offenders by confronting them with the consequences of knife crime in hospital and prison, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Jacqui Smith is coming up with half-baked ideas because the Government has been in denial about the scale of the knife crime problem. "Only a month ago, the Home Secretary denied that k...

Back in February, the Home Office’s decision to ban Dutch MP Geert Wilders provoked controversy – not least here on Lib Dem Voice, after the party’s shadow home secretary Chris Huhne backed the government’s decision. This week an immigration tribunal overturned the government ban, so we invited Chris to set out his views … The Home

Over at The Guardian, Lib Dem shadow home secretary Chris Huhne argues that fresh evidence in the News of the World hacking scandal should compel the Met to re-open its inquiry. Here’s an excerpt: The surveillance state has rightly become a matter of great public concern, which is why the Guardian’s scoop that the use of

Chris HuhneChris Huhne speaks during debate on the renewal of the Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism Act The Liberal Democrats were the only one of three main parties to oppose control orders, during the annual debate on the renewal of the measures. Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne, argued, "control orders are not an appropriate instrument for a free society under the rule ...

Chris HuhneCommenting on today’s Home Affairs Select Committee report into police involvement in the Home Office leaks inquiry, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Frustration at the leaks within the Cabinet Office should not have led to the exaggeration of the facts." "Officials seemed to have complained about national security when all they wanted to hide was t...

Chris HuhneCommenting on today’s Home Affairs Select Committee report into police involvement in the Home Office leaks inquiry, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: “Frustration at the leaks within the Cabinet Office should not have led to the exaggeration of the facts." "Officials seemed to have complained about national security when all they wanted to hide was t...