The worrying message: Britain approves torture

TWO weeks have passed since Theresa May apologised for the Blair government’s role in the kidnap and torture of Libyan dissident Abdul Hakim Belhaj. Mrs May was not to blame for this repugnant case. The two men most responsible were then Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and MI6 official Sir Mark Allen.

Yet Straw remains a Privy Councillor and Allen keeps his knighthood. Both men have brought shame on Britain, and if they aren’t stripped of their honours it will suggest that the British State approves of torture.