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Anti Terror Legislation

Asked "what the important thing" was, the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman (PMOS) said it was that we had legislation on the statute book that gave the security services and the police the powers and the certainty they needed to deal properly with the terrorist threat as they assessed it to be. That threat was real, and it did need to met. Therefore, what was important was that we gave the police and the security services those powers to deal with the few cases where there was intelligence about a threat, but there was not evidence. The PMOS said that had been the issue all the way through, and that still remained the issue.

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