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Comments on the EU Arrest Warrant showing that the goverement we elect is no longer interested in protecting the people.

“In a report last week, the committee said: “We found it disturbing that a person’s home might be entered and searched at the request of a foreign authority for the purpose of obtaining evidence to prosecute conduct which is not criminal in this country.”

The MPs raised the issue with Caroline Flint, the Home Office minister dealing with European evidence warrants. In a letter sent before Christmas she conceded that she was not opposed to the abolition of dual criminality.

According to the DT, she told the committee: “The application of the principle of mutual recognition to orders to obtain evidence is fundamental to improving the existing mutual legal assistance procedures, without resorting to extensive harmonisation of procedure.” She also said dual criminality was not necessary in relation to search warrants “because mutual recognition is founded on the principles of equivalence and trust in each other’s judicial systems”.

It was left to Bill Cash, a Tory member of the committee, to say how the plan illustrated very clearly how British law was being undermined by Brussels. But it does more than that. It undermines the very basis of national sovereignty”.