Child abuse protection law ‘ruined’ by Corbyn

JEREMY Corbyn and Diane Abbott were accused last night of putting their ‘loony Left’ politics before the victims of paedophilia.

The attack came after Labour’s Home Affairs team, led by Ms Abbott, put down a ‘wrecking amendment’ to a new child protection law, due to be debated by MPs on Wednesday.

The Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Bill would pave the way for the UK to be able to directly order US tech giants such as Google and Facebook to hand over data needed to convict British paedophiles within days.

It requires a new international treaty with the States as more than 90 per cent of online child abuse in the UK is linked to US-based software firms.

But Labour is demanding that Britain write in special assurances that no data we may theoretically share in return could ever be used to sentence a criminal to death.

Washington has warned the Home Office that any attempt to ‘attach strings’ to the treaty would kill it dead.

Last night, Security Minister Ben Wallace criticised the Labour leadership for ‘holding to ransom’ the data-sharing treaty.

He said: ‘The loony Left of the London Labour mafia are holding to ransom our children’s safety with an amendment that would destroy any chance of a treaty with our American allies.’

A Labour spokesman said: ‘Neither the collective efforts of a collapsing Government to mollify President Trump nor the personal ambitions of Ministers should make the UK complicit in executions.’