Politicians are responsible. Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, and David Blunkett, the former home secretary, have recently eulogized the nation in speeches.
John Reid, the home secretary, reckons that in total around 20 such conspiracies have been discovered by MI5, the domestic intelligence service, MI6, the foreign intelligence service, and the police.
I will investigate, with the home secretary, the reports that are in the newspapers this morning.
Theresa May, Britain's home secretary, revealed today that the explosive device found in the package at East Midlands airport was "viable and could have exploded".
On May 6th Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, announced that from this autumn the scheme, which until now has applied only to certain non-European folk, would be tried out in Manchester.
But Mr. Clarke, the home secretary, argued that civil rights had to be balanced against the needs of security.
In Britain, on the orders of a home secretary who vowed to "eradicate" it, undercover police were sent out to loiter in bars, entrap gay men and put them in jail.
Nevertheless, it was, not least by Tony Blair, then the shadow home secretary, who called it a “hammer blow against the sleeping conscience of the nation”.
Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, will today send a letter to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, demanding an explanation why the trade was allowed to happen.
Mr Blair's time as shadow home secretary in the early 1990s, during which he hardened Labour's line on law and order, was as important as Gordon Brown's as shadow chancellor.
Group of people appointed by the home secretary to visit and inspect the condition in prison
This week Mr Johnson and Theresa May, the home secretary, picked Sir Paul's replacement: Bernard Hogan-Howe, a former Merseyside chief constable (right, with Mr Johnson).
Theresa May, the home secretary who cut short her holiday, also faced criticism for a highly cautious interview on Radio 4's Today programme on Tuesday.
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