Leon Brittan, Special Branch and the creation of a surveillance state

WIIT Blog Talk · Post by **WIIT Blog Talk** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 9:26 pm

Originally posted on Desiring Progress:
An article in today’s Mirror by Don Hale, former journalist and confidante of the late Labour politician Barbara Castle, claims that Leon Brittan, when Home Secretary, treated Special Branch as his own personal ‘Gestapo’, which would monitor…

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Published by Wirral In It Together on Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:21:37 +0000