" A new Bill outlined in last week's Queen's Speech contains small print which would allow officers of the Electoral Commission unfettered powers to search MPs offices or homes.
If the Commons' Speaker tried to stop the searches, he would be committing a criminal offence.
The details of the Political Parties and Elections Bill, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, appear to blow out of the water claims by Michael Martin, the Speaker, that in future no MP's office will be able to be searched without a warrant."
It has become a cliché to say that we are sleep-walking into becoming a police state. Remember that clichés are clichés because they confirm an essential truth.
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