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Is the Home Secretary Tough Enough?

January 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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New Labour was elected with the mantra of “Tough on Crime, Tough on the Causes of Crime”. We have now had a string of Home Secretaries who try to show how tough they are. As we know, after nearly 11 years of New Labour most of it has been hot air. Well we have a recently appointed Home Secretary who has an incentive to demonstrate she can be tougher than the men who preceded her.

But, is she tough enough to adopt the same approach as the Germans………..or, perhaps the Americans?

Somehow, I don’t think the nice Ms Smith will follow either of these examples. She will follow the well trodden  route of her predecessors ….talk tough! Which is probably why even more of the population will “not walk the streets after midnight

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