One of the unfortunate casualties of the twin crises of Gordon Brown's leadership and Britain's public and private sector debt mountains has been the debate on civil liberties launched by David Davis in June.
At the time, of course, the impact of the Haltemprice by-election was diminished by Labour's refusal to contest it, and then dramatically overshadowed by the Glasgow East by-election shortly afterwards.
Nevertheless, this civil liberties debate needs to be continued. I have added some thoughts on CCTV (in favour) and the National DNA Database (sceptical) in the new Conference edition of Forward, the magazine of Conservative Way Forward.
