Trouble averted or trouble ahead?
“The biggest shake up of our democracy since 1832.” That’s how Nick Clegg is describing the legislative package that he’s announcing today. And, even if that’s pure bravado, there’s certainly plenty of encouraging stuff in it. Scrapping ID cards; restricting the storage of innocent people’s DNA; and the government is even set to ask the public which laws they’d like to see repealed. Sign me up. But it’s one omission which is really ruffling Tory feathers today. There will not, it seems, be an immediate move to supplant or even dilute the European Convention on Human Rights with a British Bill of Rights. Speaking on Radio 4 this morning, Theresa
