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Householders to get rights to fi ght off burglars

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by Mark Townsend Home Aff airs Editor

Householders who confront burglars are to be given greater rights to defend their families and homes. The justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, is looking at increasing legal protection for people who use force to fi ght off intruders.

The government is eager to “ensure that people have the protection they need when they defend themselves against intruders”, a ministry of justice source told the Observer.

Clarke will also examine the idea of increased legal protection for have-a-go heroes and passersby willing to

“apprehend criminals”. The move follows high-profi le cases in which householders were given jail sentences after attacking burglars.

Last year Munir Hussain was jailed for using a cricket bat to beat a man who had broken into his home and threatened his family with a knife. Hussain was jailed for two and a half years for causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but was released after a public outcry.

The plan has brought warnings from senior police offi cers, however, who believe a change in the law could promote vigilantism and could also be exploited to provide excuses for those involved in assault cases.

“We could start seeing people being dragged from the streets into houses or stories made up about them trying to break in,” said Simon Reed, vice-chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales. “We need to be very careful how the law is brought up on this because we certainly would not

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by Anushka Asthana, Andrew Rawnsley and Katie Allen

Nick Clegg has staked his political reputation on a pledge that under the coalition government there will be no return to the savage cuts of the 1980s.

In an interview with the Observer, he launched a withering attack on the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher and promised instead to look to the examples of Sweden, Canada and the US to deliver “progressive” cuts.

“It is important that people under-

stand that fiscal retrenchment does not mean a repeat of the 1980s. We’re going to do this diff erently,” said Clegg, in a move that risks angering MPs on the Conservative right, many of whom admire their former leader. The deputy prime minister said he would use his authority “ruthlessly” to make sure coalition commitments were met.

He argued there was an assumption on the centre-left that austerity meas-

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ures were, by defi nition, regressive and rightwing: “ I think principally the reason is because our collective memory of dif-fi cult budget decisions harks back to the 1980s, the harshness of the 1980s, north-south divide, sink-or-swim economics. That is our folk memory .”

But Clegg argued that some of the big-gest cuts programmes across the world in recent decades had been carried out by “centre-left governments”, including “the social democrats in Sweden, the Clinton administration [in the US] and the Liberals in Canada”.

He promised that while his party was part of the coalition there would be pro-tection for the country’s poorest areas, including his own constituency in south Yorkshire. “We’re not going to allow a great north-south divide to reappear,” he said, in an eff ort to allay fears triggered by the prime minister during the elec-tion. David Cameron named the north-east and Northern Ireland as regions too dependent on the public sector.

Cameron said yesterday that Britain faces years of “pain” and warned that the economy is in a far worse state than previously thought. He told the Sunday Times there was a “serious problem” with forecasts inherited from Labour of robust 3% growth next year and refused to rule out an increase in VAT,

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