Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Nigel Morris
Moves to allow police to monitor live the journeys of car drivers via 1,500 congestion-charge cameras in London have proved divisive in the Cabinet and provoked immediate criticism.
A confidential memo to Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, disclosing the plan, and its roll-out across the country, shows it is opposed by the Department for Transport because it fears plans for national road-pricing could be undermined.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, said: “[This is] a Trojan Horse to secure unprecedented access to information on car drivers’ movements without full public scrutiny or debate.”
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