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One Way traffic?

It was good to see the Liberal Democrat leader raise the extradition issue at PMQs. Not unexpectedly, the Prime Minister had no answer to offer.
Submitted by Peter Welch on 25 October 2006 - 3:03pm | Categories:

The UK-US Extradition deal continues to bring fear to British businessmen. But now that Congress has ratified surely it will be used to bring a few Americans to face justice here. Ming tried to find out at Prime Minister's Questions today. Here is how the BBC reported it:

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell once again proved he was also back to his old, sure-footed self with a well-aimed attack on the extradition deal between the UK and the US which, he claimed, was a one way street.

Sir Menzies demanded to know when moves would be taken to extradite American soldiers allegedly responsible for the death of ITN reporter Terry Lloyd in Iraq.

Mr Blair avoided an answer, allowing the Lib Dem leader a despairing "Not much comfort there".

There is a longer report on ePolitix and elsewhere on the BBC.