Tories break ranks

"While I recommend that my party support the amendment, let there be no doubt that my first act when I take over as home secretary after the next election will be to do away with the Bill," declared shadow home secretary David Davis in the Commons last night...

"It is still an unwarranted intrusion on the privacy of the individual," he said. "It is still ineffective, costly and potentially dangerous. It is still a massive reversal of the relationship between the citizen and the state."

Is this the start of something new? Conservatives with policies that are actually different to Labour's? Policies that will actually limit the power of the state? I dare not hope.

Article from The Register.