No 10 Plays Down 42-day 'Rethink'

Downing Street has played down reports it may shelve plans - ahead of a House of Lords vote - to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge.

Sources say Gordon Brown's view of the Counter Terrorism Bill is "unchanged".

But The Times says that he has decided against using the Parliament Act to force it onto the statute books if the House of Lords vote against it.

The proposal scraped through the Commons in June by 315 votes to 306 and is expected to be defeated by peers.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7654102.stm