What is absent from this government is a commitment to liberty; to human rights. There is no evidence of self-restraint or respect for constitutional safeguards and structures. Boris likes to cast himself as a Churchillian figure but when Churchill imposed emergency laws he said:
"Immense surrender of their hard-won liberties has been made by the British people, in order, in time of war to preserve the cause of freedom. Parliament stands custodian to their surrendered liberties, and its most sacred duty will be to restore them when victory is won"
It would be great if MPs would today attempt to secure at least a formal commitment to the ideal of liberty, to the restoring our full human rights at the earliest opportunity #CoronavirusBill
