Charles Clarke has said the Labour Government is lacking leadership and direction because Tony Blair has lost his sense of purpose. The former Home Secretary has spoken of the Government becoming becalmed and in an attack on his successor John Reid said Mr Blair's decision to sack him has stalled Home Office reform.
Responding to Tony Blair's speech on crime, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Nick Clegg MP said "This is clearly an admission of failure by the Prime Minister. It is striking that after 10 years in power, the gap between his rhetoric and reality is wider than ever. It is a continuing failure of government policy that is letting people down, not some nebulous 'liberal establishment' or an ill-defined need to 'rebalance' the system. We have prisons bursting at the seams, a judiciary at loggerheads with the Government, a probation service on its knees, falling conviction rates for serious crimes, one of the highest rates of reoffending in Western Europe, and a Home Office in a state of institutional meltdown."
A new generation of nuclear power stations will cost taxpayers and consumers tens of billions of pounds, Sir Menzies Campbell MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats has warned.
Britain is a "partner in crime" with the United States in organising secret flights to move terror suspects around the world and UK ministers have adopted a "see no evil, hear no evil" approach to CIA flights." says Amnesty International.
Yesterday Liberal Democrat Leader Sir Menzies Campbell delivered a keynote speech at the Annual General Meeting of the CBI. Sir Menzies said "Underlying the Government's growing problems is a fundamentally flawed approach to management which rests on controlling everything from the centre."
The Liberal Democrats have suspended their participation in a cross-party approach to climate change due to failure of the Conservatives to reach agreement on the development of specific policies.