David Davis on Brown’s security strategy

We uploaded the content from the latest issue of the magazine this morning.  It includes an article by David Davis, which you can access here.  In it, Davis argues against Brown’s security strategy, and outlines why he’s opposed to the Government’s thinking on ID cards, 42-day detention and the use of CCTV, among other things.  Here’s the bottom line:

“Mr Brown’s security strategy is the worst of all worlds — draconian, expensive and ineffective. This contortion of British security and liberty is the result of pervasive ministerial amateurism, driven by a desperate thirst for headlines. Policy-making for the news cycle cannot be properly assessed, checked and tested. That is why I am fighting this by-election. We need a national debate on the erosion of British liberty in the name of security — based on a thorough, rigorous and critical assessment of all the evidence, not a stream of simplistic soundbites.”