Liberty (advocacy group) September 2001, Shami Chakrabarti joined Liberty. After working as in-house counsel, she was appointed director of Liberty in 2003. As director, she began campaigning against what the pressure group saw as the "excessive" anti-terrorist measures that followed the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, such as the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 (ATCSA). Liberty became increasingly high-profile, with Chakrabarti making regular appearances in the media. She was described in "The Times" newspaper as "the most effective public affairs lobbyist of the past 20 years". Since the 2015 UK general election, Liberty has spearheaded the campaign to save
Reveille (British political group) Reveille (British political group) Reveille was a group within the British Conservative Party designed to pressure the party into a policy of imperialism and social reform. The origins of the group lay in the frustration of some Conservatives with what they perceived as the Party's negative defence of the "status quo" under the leadership of Arthur Balfour in response to the Liberal government's People's Budget. On 30 August 1910 the Conservative MP Henry Page Croft published an article in "The Morning Post" headed “Reveille”. He said that a "sleeping sickness" had permeated the ranks of the party, that the prospect