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"In Nick Clegg’s fantasy world, child detention in the UK has ended"

Categories: Articles:Asylum & Refugees | Published: 05/10/2011 | Views: 1607
"Among the many things that Liberal Democrats can be proud of when squaring up to their critics, Clegg told delegates, was that child detention has “ended”. Michael Moore, the Lib Dem Secretary of State for Scotland, was a little more circumspect. Borrowing - perhaps inadvertently - from Star Trek, he declared: “We have ended child detention as we know it.” .... While Moore, Brake and Clegg may be able to spot the difference in the child detention we knew, can anyone else?

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