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Blunkett: Home Secretary is setting 'bad' precedent

The government's facing a backlash for dropping its opposition to the death penalty for two Islamic State suspects from west London who face trial in the United States.

The former Labour home secretary Lord Blunkett, told Radoio 4's World at One that us a dangerous precedent had been set -"the home secretary making individual decisions on individual cases is a very, very bad principle."

(Photo: Former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett Credit: Getty Images)

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