Anti-terror plans ‘half-baked’

ALL sides of the political spectrum attacked the British Government’s raft of counter-terrorism proposals as “random” and “half-baked” yesterday.

As the Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer dismissed as “extraordinarily unlikely” that radical clerics could be charged with treason, politicians from all three major parties criticised the way ministers have set out the next steps to combat terror.

Mr Falconer said it was “not really necessary or appropriate” to use treason against firebrand clerics and insisted it had never been a serious option.