Sajid Javid’s counter-terrorism plans risk Britain’s freedom | Simon Jenkins

The new home secretary is close to capitulating to terrorism’s prime goal – undermining the liberties and dignities of the state

The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has made an astonishing proposal among his raft of strategies to be unveiled today. It is that personal information possessed by MI5 on some 20,000 British “suspected” citizens be declassified and shared with local authorities, police “and others”. This is in order to “counter terrorism”. There is no way such material can possibly sta...