Your questions for David Davis

It’s been just over a week since we asked CoffeeHousers to put forward their questions for David Davis.  We’ve since picked out the best ten, which have now been put to the former shadow home secretary.  He’ll get back to us over the next couple of days.

The CoffeeHousers whose questions were chosen can e-mail me on phoskin @ spectator.co.uk to claim their t-shirt and 180th Anniversary issue of the magazine.

Anyway, here are the questions:

1) Simon Chapman:

“The Conservative Party had won the argument and the moral victory. There are still battles to be fought in Parliament. As Shadow Home Secretary, in the current polls, you had the opportunity in two years time to reverse not only 42 days but the whole erosion of liberty that you have championed. Why, then, did you decide that your resignation was a more effective strategy for your cause and to achieve your objective of civil liberty reform, than the alternative option open to you: staying in your job, leading the parliamentary battle, and then rolling back the legislation as a great reforming Home Secretary?”

2) Kevyn Bodman:

“Those of us opposed to 42 day detention without charge are sometimes accused of defending the right of terrorists to blow us up and of not being willing to keep ordinary people safe.