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Peers 'will reject detention plans'

Updated on 12 October 2008

Source PA News

The Government's controversial plans to increase the terror detention limit to 42 days will be effectively killed off by a defeat in the Lords, one of the measure's leading critics said.

Former shadow home secretary David Davis said he expected peers to overwhelmingly reject the proposals in a vote on Monday.

Mr Davis, who resigned as an MP to force a by-election over the Government's record on civil liberties, said: "I think it will be dead."

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