Charles Kennedy

Liberal Democrats | Ross Skye & Lochaber

Kennedy: A Bad Day For The Prime Minister’s Authority

Commenting on the Government’s defeat over the proposals to detain terror suspects for 90 days, Charles Kennedy said:

“This is a good day for parliamentary democracy. It was the Prime Minister who chose to make this issue into one of confidence- and it’s a bad day for his authority. This is now a chastened Prime Minister and this should lead to a reassertion of collective cabinet government.

"Tomorrow the government must come back and tell us what it is going to do. Tony Blair must realise that 35% of the vote in a General Election does not allow him to ride roughshod over democracy in the House of Commons.”