Jacqui Smith week gets worse as Geert Wilders wins appeal

by Philip Johnston
Telegraph Blogs
October 13, 2009

https://www.legal-project.org/507/jacqui-smith-week-gets-worse-as-geert-wilders

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It has not been Jacqui Smith's week to say the least (and it is only Tuesday). First. an official report into the arrest of Damian Green, ther Tory immigration spokesman, criticised the disproportionate approach taken by the Government and the police towards the informaiton leaked to him. Green was arrested last year after an investigation was ordered by the Home Office alleging that national security could be at stake. And who was the Minister in charge: Jacqui Smith, then Home Secretary.

Then, the House of Commons standards and privileges committee concluded that she had breached parliamentary rules by claiming that a room in her sister's London house was her principal residence rather than the family home in Redditch. She apologised to the House, though in a half-hearted way.

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