UK online surveillance plan is unworkable and won't become law, says Deputy MP Nick Clegg

A MASS Internet monitoring program touted by Britain's government as a terror-fighting tool is unworkable, the country's deputy leader said, vowing that it would not become law.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's opposition means the sweeping surveillance regime - which would have tracked everything Britons did online - is likely dead in the water because his Liberal Democrats are the junior partner in Britain's coalition government and have an effective veto over official policy.

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