The New Statesman
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David Davis has made civil liberties the cornerstone of his political career.
In 2008 he resigned not only as shadow home secretary but as an MP, forcing a by-election in his constituency of Haltemprice and Howden.
New voter ID mandates have been introduced, despite minuscule rates of electoral fraud and the clear risk of disenfranchising voters.
The Online Safety Bill proposes a series of restrictions on how we interact online.
David Davis would urge his colleagues, especially the newer ones, to think long-term.
Every law we write must be written on the presumption that it will be a government very unlike ours who will be in charge at some point in the future,’ he argued in the Times in December 2022.
“The younger the MP is, the less they like to believe that,” he said this month.
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