- Would scrap ID cards and identity database
- Replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
- Opposed the extension of pre-charge detention limit to 42 days, preferring 28-day maximum
- Would replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights
- Launch a full review of the Control Orders system designed to protect the public against terrorism
- Strip local authorities of surveillance powers
- Review the Preventing Violent Extremism Strategy, which has been accused of encouraging spying on innocent Muslims
- Support DNA database, but would ensure DNA from innocent people is removed.
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- Attempted to extend pre-charge detention limit to 42 days, but now committed to 28-day limit
- Will require all foreign nationals to hold an ID card by 2011
- Scrapped plans for compulsory ID cards for everyone, but would continue to register passport holders on a National *Identity Database and to allow voluntary take-up of ID cards
- Ensure that serious offenders are added to the DNA database "no matter where or when they were convicted"
- Retain for six years the DNA profiles of those arrested but not convicted
- Make sure that UK police and security services "will not co-operate" with those who use torture.
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- Would reduce the pre-charge detention limit to 14 days and scrap control orders
- Allow intercept evidence in trials
- Would introduce a written constitution, pending approval in a referendum, that defines and limits the power of government, including a Bill of Rights to protect individual rights
- Oppose control orders
- Scrap ID cards and identity database
- End permanent storage of the DNA of innocent people without their consent
- Establish an inquiry into allegations of UK complicity in torture
- Allow parents to stop their children being fingerprinted at school
- More regulation of CCTV
- Extend the Freedom of Information Act to all public bodies
- Legislate to protect non-violent protest
- Reform libel laws to protect free speech.
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