We're edging to victory on extradition This is not comparable with an individual who commits a crime and then flees the jurisdiction. A director needn't have even visited the US subsidiary to find himself facing extradition. The risks for business are that much greater, too, because corporate scandals, such as Enron, have caused US business regulation to become part of the criminal code, with much tougher sentencing, rather than relying on civil litigation by aggrieved parties. Our original campaign crystallised around the cases of the NatWest Three and Ian Norris, the former chief executive of Morgan Crucible, not because we thought they were innocent, but because of the principles of justice that were being undermined. The Tories, in opposition, with the Lib Dems vowed to amend the Act even though Tony Blair's government refused. However, once in No 10, the Tories backtracked, citing a review which claimed the Act was balanced. More recently, Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General, said the Act's problems were "not readily curable." Yet this week the Tories have turned again, with the Prime Minister on his visit to Washington saying he wants UK courts to try more of the cases, such as Kent businessman Christopher Tappin, that end up in US courts. Although we now seem to be moving in the right direction, at last, business has not been well served by the Tories on this important topic. Their approach has been confused, weak and contradictory - which sums up too much of what they do in the name of business more generally.