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Clearly the immediate provocation is the plan to hold terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days; but Davis sees this as part of a wider attack on civil liberties, and in this context he refers to the creation of a «database state».

His ministers have been speaking out in recent months - in August, constitutional affairs secretary Lord Falconer said the US was guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in using the camp to hold terror suspects.

The US is guilty of a «shocking affront to the principles of democracy» in its use of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to hold terror suspects, Lord Falconer has said.

Britain's top lawyer last night expressed doubts about the government's intention to reintroduce plans allowing police to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without charge.

The government has formalised plans to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge with publication of the counterterrorism bill.

Mr Grieve warned holding terror suspects for prolonged periods encouraged media speculation and risked prejudicing a future trial.

As a member of the Government, he will soon have to vote to raise the limit for holding terror suspects from 28 to 42 days.

Lord Falconer also objected to the proposed parliamentary safeguard, where MPs would have to approve holding a terror suspect beyond 28 days.

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Gordon Brown has today called for an extension in the time terror suspects can be held without charge.

The archbishop of York has warned that extending the time terror suspects can be held without charge to 90 days is getting close to creating a «police state».

His comments came a day after Ken Jones, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers, said terror suspects should be held for «as long as it takes».

Shadow home secretary David Davis said yesterday the government had been wrong to push for a 90 - day limit and said the Conservatives were absolutely opposed to Mr Jones» suggestion terror suspects should be held for «as long as it takes».

MPs have rejected the government's case for an extension of the period terror suspects can be held without charge.

Government safeguards to increase the period for which terror suspects can be held without trial were today dismissed as «meaningless».

The Conservatives claim no data is available on how long terror suspects have been held since the new detention limit was introduced in July.

The joint committee on human rights also questions plans to extend the time a terror suspect can be held in police custody without charge from its current limit of 14 days, saying it has yet to see evidence to justify this.

The committee's views on detention of terror suspects will also make good reading for critics, as it finds that it has yet to see evidence to justify the time terrorist suspects can be held without charge.

Parliament last week held a closed - door meetng with Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh, on the issue of the two Yemini former terror suspects.

The head of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Ian Blair, told MPs that terror suspects may need to be held for up to 90 days without charge, and callls for parliament to pass measures now rather than in an emergency.

The government is currently trying to push through measures that would extend the period terror suspects can be held without being charged.

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

Many believe the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes - who was shot dead after being mistaken as a terror suspect on a London Underground station in July 2005 - would have been held in private had the legislation already been passed.

The former lord chancellor has added his concerns to the body of opinion doubting the government's plans to extend the length of time terror suspects can be held without charge.

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Shadow home secretary David Davis yesterday insisted there was not a «shred of evidence» to support government plans to extend the period for which terror suspects can be held without charge.

Charles Clarke is hoping to secure a deal with foreign governments that would pave the way for the deportation of foreign terror suspects being held in British jails.

He vowed the United States would never relent in tracking down terror suspects and holding them to account.

The publication of the study follows Gordon Brown's support this weekend for an extension of the 28 - day limit on the time terror suspects can be held without charge.