Top news today: e-petitions, Barker, terror powers
Author: Zoe Stavri
Published on Sep 14, 2012
More e-petitions will receive replies from the government, more revelations about Greg Barker, the Home Office considering scaling back terror powers, a poll reveals the electorate don’t think the Lib Dems are making a difference and Maria Miller alludes to how press reform will work.
MORE E-PETITIONS TO RECEIVE GOVERNMENT RESPONSES- Any petition from the government’s e-petitions service with more than 10 000 signatures will have the government’s response published alongside it. Will this move give citizens more power?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19583777
ENERGY MINISTER ASKED ABOUT PERMIT APPLICATION FOR ADVISER’S CLIENT- Climate change minister Greg Barker asked after an application for a client of his adviser, energy lobbyist Miriam Maes. Could this scandal have been prevented by greater transparency?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/13/energy-minister-application-adviser-client
THERESA MAY TO CONSULT ON SCALING BACK OF TERROR POWERS- Anti-terrorism laws which grant police powers to stop anyone entering the UK and detain them without reasonable suspicion could be scaled back. Is this move sufficient?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theresa-may-to-consult-on-scalingback-of-terror-powers-8134666.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2202612/Theresa-May-Anti-terror-powers-stop-entering-UK-scaled-back.html
LIB DEMS HAVE MADE NO DIFFERENCE ON POLITICAL REFORM, SAY HALF OF VOTERS- Political reform is a central issue to the Liberal Democrats, but half of the electorate say they have made no difference in this area since they entered the coalition. How much of a difference do you think the Lib Dems are making?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/13/lib-dems-no-difference-political-reform
CULTURE SECRETARY MARIA MILLER “OPEN-MINDED” ON FUTURE OF PRESS REGULATION- Maria Miller has said she wants a “suitably independent press” with a regulator with “sufficient teeth”. How do you think press regulation should look?
http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/politics/culture-secretary-maria-miller-open-minded-on-future-of-press-regulation-1-2526294