Most criminals should be spared jail with prison reserved for only the most serious offenders the Liberal Democrats have said.
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Telegraph on 16th Sep 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Commenting on the announcement that fewer than one third of the foreign criminals at the centre of the scandal which caused Charles Clarke to resign have been deported, and that over 100 have yet to be located, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Ministers bang on about record numbers of foreign prisoners being deported, but the truth is that they still cannot even find some...
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LibDems on 25th Jul 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
Compare and contrast: title of policy: Cutting Crime by Catching Criminals. Headline in Telegraph: Chris Huhne: Jailing criminals is not the answer Well done Telegraph for engaging in the debate in such a rational and mature way.
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Politicians must "stop posturing about penalties" and concentrate on catching criminals by putting more police on the streets, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said today.
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TheIndependent on 16th Sep 2008 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
Commenting on the news that recommendations made after the official inquiry into the Soham murders remain unimplemented, Liberal Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "Serious crime can only be tackled by cooperating with our EU neighbours. "Ministers continually trumpet their record on deporting foreign criminals but no one can be sure how many have slipped through the net bec...
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LibDems on 17th Jul 2008 (via libdems.org.uk)
An article written by Chris Huhne for this week's Liberal Democrat News has attracted considerable comment this afternoon on politicalbetting.com. The article can be read here on Lib Dem Voice. To summarise the thrust of the article, Chris Huhne argues that those who believe the Liberal Democrats will be wiped out at the next election will be proved wrong. Chris argues that incumbency and loc...
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Aloadofoldstodge on 5th Sep 2008 (via aloadofoldstodge.blogspot.com)
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne tells the Liberal Democrat conference the Government will put an end to "predatory pricing".
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Telegraph on 20th Sep 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Via the BBC: Annual fitness tests for police and an end to the “job-for-life” culture are among the proposals in a Lib Dem policy document on fighting crime. Home Affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said more officers were needed on the streets to catch criminals. But he said there also needed to be an urgent review
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 5th Sep 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Ahead of todays European Court of Human Rights ruling on whether two innocent men should be removed from the DNA database, the Liberal Democrats have revealed that 40% of Britains criminals escape inclusion on the database.
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PublicTechnology on 4th Dec 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
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 HuhneLiberal Democrats accuse Government of ditching localism and driving prostitution underground Article for Liberal Democrat News - 21/01/09 "A mixture of the pernicious, the vexatious and the supernumerary" was how Chris Huhne summed up the Government's Policing and Crime Bill, which got its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday (19th January). The Liberal Democrats did n...
