42-day detention battle delayed progress on crime and justice / Guardian, 24 June 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/24/gordonbrown.justice?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
Alan Travis
"The sustained reduction in crime – one of Labour's "hidden" achievements – has started to accelerate, but without any apparent political dividend for ministers. Brown instead found himself battered by recurrent scares over gun and knife crime and resorted to Blair-style Downing Street summits and emergency announcements."