Simon Jenkins gets it right

The Simon Jenkins column in the Guardian today nails the argument against 42 days.

These, for me, are the killer sentences: "The police have enough emergency power already. As for panic, that has nothing to do with national security and everything to do with the position of the prime minister."

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