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Exclusive: Braverman tried to curtail Spycops inquiry - Freedom News
A Freedom of Information Act request reveals that Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman attempted to curtail the Undercover Policing Inquiry. (...) Following a meeting in May 2023 to discuss costs and timescales of the long running inquiry, Braverman proposed changes to its terms of reference.
These changes would have removed the Inquiry’s focus on the effect of undercover operations on individuals and the public in general, to simply considering their impact more broadly. Rather than the comprehensive, deployment-by-deployment review the Inquiry had committed to, the minsters wanted it to switch to a “sampling method”. They also sought to remove reference to undercover work other than by the political policing units, the SDS and NPOIU. It appears that Mitting pushed back on this, agreeing instead that the Inquiry would report back at the end of 2026 and come in at a budget of £139.1 million. He put his commitment to these timescales and budget in writing to the Home Office.