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...honorable members were squeezed into their seats like tinned anchovies with the remainder standing 10 deep by the doors as Brown and Conservative Party leader David Cameron squared off at high noon...
...Opponents of the government proposal say that the measure is an assault on Britain's legal traditions going back to the Magna Carta. "Terrorists want to destroy our liberties," said Cameron. "When we trash our liberties, we do their job for them." He brushed aside Brown's riposte that the opinion polls showed public support for the measure. "It is popular, but the point is we're supposed to do the right thing in this House...
...over as leader in 2005, appropriating some of the values and preoccupations more traditionally associated with Labour, such as a focus on human rights. On the Labour benches, many of the Prime Minister's supporters worried that failure to win the day could precipitate an internal coup attempt against Brown. "Today was all about the durability of this government," said Jon Cruddas, a popular MP on the left of the Labour party, after casting his vote in favor of the measure. "The debate was a bit of an onion," said another Labour left-winger, Jeremy Corbyn, an opponent...
...paper, Brown triumphed in both debates when the measure squeaked through by 315 votes to 306. Yet the government's knife-edge victory saw 36 Labour MPs, including former ministers, oppose the government, and relied on the support of nine members of the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party. Brown and the DUP politicians have firmly rejected suggestions that their votes were secured through backroom deals. But there is no denying that government whips (MPs who act as the party's disciplinarians) worked up to the last minute cajoling and arm-twisting colleagues into toeing the party line...
...breaches of rules on expenses by a few prominent Conservatives will dent the Tories' substantial lead in the polls. But fresh challenges are piling up thick and fast for Labour's hapless leader, including industrial action this weekend by tanker-truck drivers that could cause fuel shortages. Even as Brown breathed a sigh of relief over his narrow escape in the Commons, civil servants were briefing him about an embarrassing security breach in which secret government documents about al-Qaeda were left on a commuter train...