No change as MPs debate McKinnon case

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Sharp added: "US should drop this extradition now, as it's making them and [the] UK government look like very vindictive people."

No change

Johnson said McKinnon must face the charges. "This is not a matter of me finding Gary McKinnon innocent of guilty. These are very serious charges against Gary McKinnon," he said.

Johnson said he has read every word McKinnon and his representatives have filed, and after "careful contemplation", could come to no other decision. "We've now had three Home Secretaries, incidentally, making the same decision. I think any person would have come to the same decision, no matter how hard that decision would be."

"It's not a Home Secretary's job to be popular, to please whatever media campaign is on the go," he later added.

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