We Will Defy Blair Over Terror Law, Pledge Peers ; Terror Bill As Measures Pass Through Commons, Trouble in the Lords

Evening Standard - London › March 10, 2005

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PEERS vowed to defy Tony Blair today by voting down key measures in his antiterrorism Bill for the second time.

Rebels leaders in the House of Lords claimed they would stand firm despite the Prime Minister raising the stakes by turning the clash into an election issue.

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We Will Defy Blair Over Terror Law, Pledge Peers ; Terror Bill As Measures Pass Through Commons, Trouble in the Lords

The Government faced potential defeat on two fronts - a move to make the emergency house arrest powers temporary and a bid to raise the stan...

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