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Former spy chief opposes government terror plans

Controversial government plans to increase pre-charge detention limits for suspected extremists are unworkable, the former head of the domestic security service MI5 told parliament Tuesday. Elizabeth Manningham-Buller said in a debate on the subject in the upper House of Lords chamber that she did not think “on a practical basis, as well as a principled one, that these proposals are in any way workable. Full Story