Independent Online Edition > UK Politics: "MI5 will get new powers to bug MPs | By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor | Published: 15 January 2006
Furious cabinet revolt as Blair gives green light for security services to spy on elected representatives
Tony Blair is preparing to scrap a 40-year ban on tapping MPs' telephones, despite fierce Cabinet opposition, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
He is expected to formally announce to the Commons within weeks that MPs can no longer be sure that the security services and others will not intercept their communications.
Until now, successive administrations have pledged that there should be no tapping 'whatsoever' of MPs' phones, and that they would be told if it was necessary to breach the ban. ...
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