This report from Sky News:
Share:Peers voted 309 to 118 to reject a controversial proposal to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge.
It only narrowly passed through the House of Commons in June – and was not expected to clear the upper house of Parliament.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith will make an emergency statement on the result in the Commons at 8:30pm tonight.
The latest bid to extend pre-charge detention for terror suspects was rejected by a coalition of Tory and Liberal Democrat peers and Labour rebels.
They backed a move by crossbencher Lord Dear, a former chief inspector of constabulary, to bar any extension beyond 28 days in the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
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Expected of course, but stıll – woo!
Before we get to triumphalist, we have again voted for a doubling of the limit that sufficed for 4 years after 9/11 (ie 14 days)
Jacqui Smith saying that 42 days will be dropped from the bill.
However there will be a new bill prepared ready to be brought forward “should the worst happen”. Which really goes to undermine the claims that 42 days detention was needed as a preventative measure