Govt to table emergency legislation that will *retrospectively* end automatic early release for 220 convicted terrorists currently behind bars
An extraordinary step - legislation could go down this week
Ministers braced for legal challenge but determined to push ahead
The earliest point they will not be released is once they have served 2/3 of sentence
Emergency legislation to retrospectively end automatic early release of convicted terrorists can be pushed through Parliament in a couple of weeks
Sounds like Govt legal advice is clear that move can be justified
'In case of convicted terrorists public safety must come first. It is impossible to accurately assess risk of individual because many of most dangerous lie persuasively'
Robert Buckland: 'They were facing constant challenge in the courts.
'It was essential to make sure we had measures to make the regime invulnerable to such challenge'