Stuart Wheeler

The Tories must say No to torture

The government is, on behalf of you and me, involved in the worst type of man’s inhumanity to man

issue 25 November 2006

The government is, on behalf of you and me, involved in the worst type of man’s inhumanity to man — torture. Yet with the honourable exceptions of William Hague and Andrew Tyrie, the Conservative party, the party I wholeheartedly support, the party that talks of compassionate conservatism, is failing to speak out about it when it should be shouting from the rooftops.

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