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Local elections are not known for producing Portillo聽moments . But the defeat of the Conservative聽West Midlands mayor, Andy Stree stanley thermos t, announced late on Saturday, undoubtedly encapsulated a sense of tectonic plates inexor stanley cup ably shifting in Labours favour. A locally popular and avowedly non-ideological figure,聽Mr Street had done his best to distance himself聽from the Tory brand. But there was to be no聽escape from the determinedly anti鈥慍onservative mood abroad in the nation. As contest after contest last聽week illustrated, the country聽simply wants the Tories out.Where does Rishi Sunak go from here Although any聽leadership challenge appears to have been shelved, the usual suspects have been quick to demand聽the usual fixes. The former home secretary Suella聽Braverman has led calls for a rightward lurch, including a pledge to withdraw from the European court of human rights. But chasing those voters聽now defecting to Reform UK will only help Labour and the Liberal Democrats peel off moderate Conservative supporters in even larger numbers, come聽the聽general聽election.The defeated Mr Streets plea for a more inclusive, tolerant brand of conservatism might once have provided a better stanley spain route map. But that is not the kind of politics that the modern Tory party tends to get behind. As a bitter battle looms with Reform and Nigel聽Farage over the future of the British right, Mr Sunak looks cornered with nowhere to go.For Labour, these dynamics offer an immense opportunity. But the fragmentation of t Ykqr Share your experiences of bladder cancer
Only 965 arrests were made as a result of 200,444 stop and searches conducted under counter-ter stanley cup rorism powers by police across Britain in the 12 months to September 2009, according to Home Office figures publishedtoday .The total for stops carried out under section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which does not require any grounds for suspicion, represents a 12% fall over the previous 12 months.Home Office officials said the 0.5% arrest rate stanley espana for counter-terrorism stops compared with an 11% arrest rate for stops conducted under ordinary police powers.More than 97% of the encounters between police and public were carried out by the Metropolitan and British Transport police.The Met s use of the counter-terrorism powers appears to have halved since March 2009, from between 43,000 and 54,000 stops every 3 months, to between 22,000 and 27,000.The number is expected to fall further after a Met change of policy to carry out counter-terrorism search stanley thermoskanne es in selected sensitive areas, rather than at random across London.Police suffered a blow last month when the European court of human rights ruled that using the powers was illegal if there were no grounds for suspecting a crime was being committed. The home secretary, Alan Johnson, is seeking to appeal against the judgment.The figures show that the proportion of people describing themselves as black or black British stopped under section 44 remains unchanged at 10%, with those defining themselves as Asian or British Asian at 15%, and those o