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I believe Britain would be a safer place if suspected terrorists could be detained for up to 42 days while their cases are investigated. David Davis believes 28 days is enough

I want to have a public debate with David Davis on this issue but he has refused to do it. He has asked members of the Labour Party to debate this issue with him but will not discuss it publicly with me

Terrorist plots are far more complex than they used to be. Often people all around the world are involved and hundreds of computers need to be examined. In order to be able to investigate these plots and protect us properly, it is right that the police are given more time. I believe 42 days is the right amount of time

David Davis disagrees with me. I want a debate. He does not. Why?

VOTE FOR
GEMMA GARRETT
THE MISS GREAT BRITAIN PARTY
10TH JULY

Reigning Miss Great Britain, Gemma Garrett, is to stand against David Davis in the forthcoming Haltemprice and Howden by-election, the Miss Great Britain Party announces today.

In the absence of either a Labour or a Lib Dem candidate Miss Great Britain will provide the main opposition to David Davis and offer an alternative to thousands of voters who believe that there are far more important issues than whether or not to extend by 14 days the amount of time terror suspects can be detained.

Party founder and leader, Robert de Keyser, said: “We have completed our selection process and are delighted to have Gemma standing as a credible and serious candidate.

“We are already getting clear indications that many traditional Labour and Lib Dem voters will rally to her because they want to register a positive vote against Mr Davis rather than simply abstaining and allowing him to be returned unopposed in a by-election caused by political vanity.”

Gemma Garrett said: “I am delighted to be fighting this by-election on the issues which really matter to the British people rather than Mr Davis’s trivial obsession over detaining terror suspects for an extra 14 days.

“As we will be the only party fighting on a full manifesto rather than a single issue, I look forward to debating policy with Mr Davis on things like tax relief of childcare, proper pay for our armed forces and better deals for pensioners,  homebuyers and home owners, and mothers.

“The Miss Great Britain Party believes that these issues are not being properly debated because politics is seen as being sleazy, cynical and male dominated. By getting more beautiful women to Westminster we believe that we can re-engage voters and bring about the changes they really want to see.”

Key Miss Great Britain manifesto points include:

• Securing proper pay and frontline increments for British soldiers as well as rights to substantial guaranteed compensation in the event of injury or death
• Ensuring that all necessarily incurred child care costs are fully tax deductible
• A better deal for home buyers by abolishing stamp duties for first time buyers and making family homes exempt from inheritance tax
• A better deal for pensioners by indexing annual pension increases against the true rise in the cost of energy, food etc rather than using the RPI
• Increasing tax allowances for women under the age of 65
• A better deal for mothers who take time off to work to have children
• Ensuring the British Government allows the people of Britain a referendum on Europe
• Help motorists by capping increases in fuel duties against the rising price of oil
• Higher tax for higher earners with a 45 per cent rate for those on £100,000 pa rising to 50 per cent on earnings above £200,000 pa.

I am delighted to be standing in the seat where the late Gwyneth Dunwoody did so much to enhance the reputation of politics and politicians at a time when others were bringing them into disrepute.

Like her, I am determined to improve the lot of British women by campaigning across a whole range of women’s issues.

In particular I absolutely believe that the cost of child care should be made tax deductible. This would be the most enormous help to millions of women who choose both to have children and to go out to work.

I also want to lend my support to our boys fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan by proposing pay increases to privates and corporals in active service who lay their lives on the line for meagre pay.

But the real way I believe I can make a difference by standing for election as the current Miss Britain is in putting the beauty back into Britain.

At the moment, much of our political life looks dowdy and down-trodden. Women are reluctant to put a proper emphasis on beauty and I want to change that.

I want Westminster to be home to as many glamorous and confident women as, say, Rome or Paris. Or even Brussels or Berlin.

And I want that new emphasis on beauty to extend into every aspect of British life.
If women should look and feel beautiful it makes Britain a happier place.

I hope it will also fire up people’s interests again in politics and turn back the tide of cynicism which keeps so many voters at home on election days.

Part of this will be ending the tide of sleaze which has engulfed our politics. I will be campaigning for transparency and accountability.

I want to see politics rapidly becoming sexy instead of sleazy.

I hope my standing in Crewe and Nantwich will start a process which will give voters an election they can be proud of.

Vote for beauty and vote for me. If you would like to join my campaign and be part of our team just get in touch with my political adviser Robert de Keyser. All kinds of beauty welcome!

Gemma Garrett

May 2008