Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resignation statement

Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resignation statement; - In truth 42 days is just one, perhaps the most salient example, of the insidious, surreptitious and relentless erosion of fundamental British freedoms / we will have shortly the most intrusive identity card system in the world, a CCTV camera for every 14 citizens, a DNA database bigger than any dictatorship has, with thousands of innocent children and a million innocent citizens on it / We've witnessed an assault on jury trials, that bulwark against bad law and its arbitrary abuse by the state, shortcuts for our justice system that make our justice system neither firm nor fair, and the creation of a database state, opening up our private lives to the prying eyes of official snoopers and exposing our personal data to careless civil servants and criminal hackers / The state has security powers to clamp down on peaceful protests and so-called hate laws which stifle legitimate debate, whilst those who incite violence get off scot-free / This cannot go on, it must be stopped and for that reason today I feel it is incumbent on me to take a stand