Does this Labour government support the use of torture?

The BBC report that:

"A senior Conservative says ministers must urgently respond to allegations that Britain was complicit in torture.

David Davis said a High Court ruling on Wednesday alleged a British resident held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba had been tortured.

The ruling suggested the US threatened to withdraw intelligence help from the UK if details were released, Mr Davis claimed in the House of Commons.

The BBC's Nick Robinson said the claims were "extraordinarily serious".

The allegations relate to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held in Guantanamo, who alleges he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco and Afghanistan.

Mr Davis said a High Court ruling, which pointed to complicity by the UK and US authorities in his torture, was prevented from being published after the US put pressure on the UK.

He said the US had threatened to withdraw intelligence co-operation from the UK if this happened.

The former shadow home secretary raised the case in a point of order in the House of Commons.

He said Foreign Secretary David Miliband should make a statement to MPs about the issue as soon as possible to "explain what the devil is going on".

Mr Davis said the US authorities should not interfere with the UK judicial process.

He also said the UK government should make it "plain" that it did not support torture in any circumstances. "

Davis Davis should pursue this one as hard as possible, purely because I want Gordon Brown, David Miliband and Jack Straw to have admit to their part (if they had one) in approving "extraordinary rendition".

For the avoidance of doubt, "Binyam Mohamed, a British resident", is an Ethiopian who sought asylum in the UK in 1994. In June 2001, he travelled to Afghanistan his supporters claim this was so as to conquer his drug problems and to see Muslim countries "with his own eyes". Obviously a man with a drug problem would travel to the centre of the world's heroin trade in order to kick the habit; that is obvious! The UK and U.S. authorities contend that he went to train in a paramilitary Al-Qaeda camp. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks Binyam Mohamed went to Pakistan and on 10 April 2002, he was arrested at the Karachi airport by Pakistani authorities as a suspected terrorist. From there he was sent to Guantanemo Bay. It is odd that so many British residents decided that the best place for a holiday/work trip/ drug rehab was Afghanistan or Pakistan, I am sure there is nothing suspicious about it and that they all should be brought back to the UK, given a nice council house and left to do what they want