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Nick Clegg rejects 'snooper's bill'

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that the government "will not be introducing what has been dubbed the snooper's charter."

He said: "I think the idea of a snooper's charter is not in keeping with the commitment we made at the beginning of the coalition to turn a page on the kind of database state that the Labour Party was always pushing for when they were in government."