I'm fighting to defend our basic freedoms, says David Davis - Telegraph

David Davis writes in the Telegraph and launches quickly into his stride with the following

...in pawning off one of the crown jewels of our democracy, the Prime Minister stooped to the lowest level, with widespread reports that he threatened and bought off just enough voices of dissent within his own party to sneak this measure through. Despite the frenetic excitement around Westminster, this was a sad day for the mother of parliaments.

His finishing lines may help out David Cameron. Davis has this to say

There will be those that cast aspersions on this endeavour, and those who try to suggest divisions within the Conservative Party. Yesterday, Westminster was foaming with speculation about a rift between me and David Cameron. It is nonsense. We have been united from start to finish on 42 days and wider security policy. We agreed that a Conservative government would immediately repeal 42 days, in the absence of the most compelling new evidence. And I am fully committed to David Cameron's fine leadership of the Conservative Party, including the excellent appointment of Dominic Grieve, one of my closest friends, as shadow home secretary.

This may dump on some of the papers who think there is a huge rift between Davis and Cameron.

In the Spectator James Forsyth has this to say on what is going on.

I’m noticing a complete divide among my friends. Those who work in or around politics are all agreed that, at best, David Davis is suffering from a rush of blood to the head. All my ‘civilian’ friends, though, are full of praise for him. The charitable explanation for this split is that those of us who live and breathe politics are thinking two-steps ahead, imagining how Davis is going to look this time next week when he is out of job and the media caravan has moved on to the next story. The alternative is that we in the Westminster village are all hideously out of touch. Time will tell which it is.

If he wants my opinion the latter is true and Westminster is out of touch as I have already said.


I'm fighting to defend our basic freedoms, says David Davis - Telegraph