Daily: Inside the SPYCOPS bill

<p>The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill known as <strong>SpyCops</strong> is one of the most controversial pieces of legislation before Parliament – and the Labour Party is only timidly opposing it. Is a bill that permits state agents to break the law defensible? Where do we draw the line? Scottish Labour MSP <strong>Neil Findlay</strong> explains why he’s campaigning against the CHIS Bill, where Keir Starmer is falling short, and the deeper background of the <a href="https://www.ucpi.org.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Undercover Policing Inquiry</a> into 40 years of undercover surveillance.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>“We’ve seen appalling crimes committed against ordinary people by agents of the state… ”</li><li>“There’s no fascist groups on the list, no extreme right groups. Everyone investigated is on the Left.”</li><li>“In Scotland we had the police investigating the police. Surprise surprise, they found there’s nothing to see here, guv.”</li><li>“To raise a child and then discover that the father wasn’t who you thought they were…&nbsp;Some of these women consider that they’d been raped by the State.”&nbsp;</li><li>“How did a union activist know their phone was being tapped? They wouldn’t pay the bill for two years and never got cut off…”</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. </em><strong><em>THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>