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# New "emergency" powers for Blair & co?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2004/01/new_emergency_p/
- Published: 2004-01-08T00:25:14.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T08:45:49.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Legal system, politicians

The *Today* programme woke me this morning with the level of frightening revelation that sent me scurrying for the newspapers. It wasn’t a sleep-addled hallucination. It was a piece of really bad news from Westminster about new powers for the Government in “times of crisis”. [This is horrifying.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk%5Fpolitics/3375711.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "<br />
        BBC NEWS | Politics | Emergency powers plan published") How much more authoritarian would the Blair government like to get?

As usual in such matters, [White Rose](http://whiterose.samizdata.net/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) has the [best commentary](http://whiterose.samizdata.net/archives/005319.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).