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Control orders need wholesale review - Clegg

9.40.41pm GMT Wed 17th Jan 2007

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Commenting on the news that another terror suspect on a control order has absconded, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary Nick Clegg MP said:

"There have always been serious reservations of principle about the way in which control orders are imposed.

"It now appears there are serious question marks about how they operate in practice too.

"Control orders were the centrepiece of the Government's anti-terrorist strategy. There must now be a wholesale review of their effectiveness as part of the long-promised overhaul of anti-terror laws."

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