Jay Currie

Tony Blair has outlined a raft of plans to extend powers to deport or exclude foreigners who encourage terrorism.

The UK can already exclude or deport those who pose a threat to security and Mr Blair said he also wanted to clamp down on those who advocated terror.

The prime minister said he was prepared to amend human rights laws to make deportations more straightforward.
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Now my snarky question is whether this will include George Galloway.

More seriously, these are important and necessary measures. But I have to wonder why it took the deaths of over fifty people before Blair was able to introduce them.

Just as much to the point, will it take the deaths of fifty or five hundred or five thousand Canadians before Canada introduces parallel measures?