Responding to the Home Secretary's announcement today on control orders, Brighton Pavilion's Green MP Caroline Lucas said:

"It is hugely disappointing that the Home Secretary has chosen to retain the policy of using electronic tagging and accommodation restrictions, which effectively leaves us with control orders by any other name.

"This is not what we were promised.

"The Government could have seized this crucial opportunity to lift the prohibition on the use of police bail, which would ensure that anyone suspected of terrorist activity would be treated with due process through the criminal justice system - rather than continuing to be subject to executive orders.

"Control orders are not only repressive, they are ineffective in securing convictions - and thus have no place in our society in any form."

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