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New Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti is slammed today for abandoning her principles, The Sunday People can reveal.

The former director of human rights group Liberty opposed the Government’s Investigatory Powers Bill dubbed the Snooper’s Charter .

But this week Jeremy Corbyn ’s new shadow Attorney-General will abstain with other Labour peers on a vote in the House of Lords allowing it to be passed.

That has infuriated Lib Dem leader Tim Farron whose peers will be voting against the Bill.

He stormed: “Shami sold her principles to get a peerage.

“She has sold the final bit of her credibility by accepting a shadow Cabinet role in a party which plans to sit on its hands and wave through this illiberal and intrusive Bill.”

The new law will allow MI5 and MI6 to collect vast quantities of personal internet data.

The intelligence services argue this will better equip them to fight terrorism.

But in February Ms Chakrabarti said: “The Government needs to pause, take stock and redraft.”

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She added: “The case for unprecedented powers to bulk hack, intercept and collect our private data has not been made.”

And after extra safeguards were added she said in March: “Minor Botox has not fixed this Bill.”

Mr Farron added: “What really smarts is that she has spent her whole career attacking others for the craven thing she is about to do.

“Shame on her. I actually thought better of her.”

A Labour source in the Lords confirmed that Ms Chakrabarti will not vote against the Bill.

He said: “Our peers are instructed to abstain.

“We would expect all frontbenchers to follow the whip.”