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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (23 Feb 2005)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...it not worrying, where the principles of justice are concerned, that under three successive Labour Home Secretaries, we have today house arrest and the ending of trial by jury, and in the future, ID cards? Whenever the Government are presented with a problem their instinctive response is authoritarian. After two terms of Labour government, where would our civil liberties be left were there...

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (26 Jan 2005)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...same "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" speech, the Prime Minister went on to say something that we thoroughly endorse: "Instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let the money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in local communities." Now, whatever happened to that promise?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (15 Dec 2004)

Mr Charles Kennedy: On the latter point, is that not one of the problems particularly associated with compulsory identity cards for people living in outlying areas—for example, pensioners or disabled people—who will face long and expensive journeys into cities to go to the secure centres where they will have their iris scans or their fingerprints taken to get the ID card? That leads many of us to ask...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr Charles Kennedy: ...Government a hard time of it and Jean Rook, the self-styled first lady of Fleet street, was sent round to No. 10 for an early-evening dram with Harold. He poured her a drink, got the pipe out and said, "In your own time, Jean." She said, "Prime Minister Wilson, is it true that whenever you are asked a tough, awkward or difficult question that puts you on the spot and you don't want to...

Debate on the Address: [First Day] (23 Nov 2004)

Mr Charles Kennedy: I was intrigued by that proposal as well; it was a new one on me. The Deputy First Minister in the Scottish Parliament, my party colleague, Jim Wallace, did not seem to be willing to get bogged down in this distinction between what is devolved and what is not, when he said recently in a speech: "The truth is that ID cards will fail to combat terrorism and make little or no difference in...