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As Tim Montgomerie points out, David Davis’s article in The Times today, which Pete flagged up earlier, is just the latest in a string of public disagreements Davis has had with the Tory leadership. A couple of these disagreements seem to have been designed specifically to rock the boat; I’m thinking of the comments on grammar schools and today’s attack on a caricature of Tory policy on health records.

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The most telling thing about Davis’s article is the tone it is couched in. It is hard to see it as a constructive contribution to the policy debate when in his opening paragraph he calls the idea “so naïve” and “dangerous in its own right, and hazardous to the public acceptability of necessary reforms to the state’s handling of our private information.”