Accountability

- Companies should be accountable for the tax that they should pay. Chrstian Aid has found that illegal trade-related tax evasion costs the developing world at least $160 billion in lost revenue each year. If that money was re-allocated, the lives of 350,000 children under the age of five could be saved every year. Nearly half the world’s tax havens are UK overseas territories, Crown dependencies and Commonwealth countries.

- The US should be accountable for crimes against civilian journalists in Iraq.

- The police should be accountable, rather than being able to hold terrorism suspects for 48 days without charge. Police can only hold murder suspects for 4 days without charge. The government can already use The Civil Contingencies Act (2004) to temporarily extend pre-charge detention in a genuine emergency where the police are overwhelmed by multiple terror plots. These powers would be subject to parliamentary and judicial oversight.