Tugendhat’s treason try trounced

Home Office rejects amendment previously proposed by Home Office minister

The Home Office has explained why it is refusing to introduce a new treason law along the lines proposed by Tom Tugendhat MP before he became a Home Office minister last September.

Today’s Times reports that the justice secretary Dominic Raab has blocked plans drawn up by Tugendhat and his boss, the home secretary Suella Braverman, to amend the National Security Bill, currently going through parliament, by creating a new offence of aiding a hostile power.

Tom Tugendhat MBE

Although the Times report speaks of a cabinet row, it seems from remarks made by another Home Office minister just before Christmas that Raab has already won the argument.