Sean Hannity's expansive sigh of relief could be heard all the way from Israel (probably), where he is currently putting together a FOX News documentary on what he claims is a proportionate military operation by the IDF in Gaza.
A spokeswoman for Merseyside Police said: "The force was aware of potential protests outside of the town hall and had implemented a proportionate police operation to facilitate any lawful and peaceful protests.
O'Connor said the new proposals, based on a review of protocol in MI5 and FBI, would ensure that officers were only deployed on long-term missions where independent oversight considered the operation necessary and proportionate.
Regulations for those providing accommodation should be proportionate to the scale of operation, continues Wosskow: "There is a clear difference between someone who is renting out a spare room for a couple of nights a year and a business that is renting out hundreds of homes all year round".
The development comes after Scotland Yard called off its multimillion-pound 24-hour surveillance of the embassy earlier this week, having decided the operation was "no longer proportionate".
Scotland Yard has called off its multimillion pound 24-hour surveillance of the Ecuadorian embassy where Julian Assange has been living for 40 months, having decided the operation is "no longer proportionate".
Civil rights group Liberty says its proposed reform - which would require police forces to satisfy a High Court judge that undercover operations would be necessary and proportionate - could be tabled as an amendment to the the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill currently going through Parliament.
"The school is confident that its safeguarding policies and the work of the professionals in the operation of these policies are proportionate, justified and place the wellbeing of the child to the fore.
"It does seem to us that in view of the parents' obvious refusal to return to the UK, a proportionate response is to seek their urgent co-operation with an assessment in order that their plans for the children may be clearer to us, and about which reasoned decisions may be taken".
Though not ruling on the proposals for a holding area off the M20 put forward by the Department for Transport, the MPs want more evidence that it is "a proportionate and appropriate solution" to the problems caused by Operation Stack, under which Kent police close large stretches of motorway to park freight vehicles bound for the Port of Dover or the Channel tunnel.
