Archive for julian huppert
Who killed the Snoopers’ Charter?
As Liberty’s email to its supporters today says, “The Snoopers’ Charter is dead” or as Julian Huppert has written over on Lib Dem Voice, I agree with Nick. He’s right to kill the Snoopers’ Charter. Understandably, lots of people are stake a claim to their share of the credit for this outcome, even if Liberty [...]
Snooper’s Charter: You got it right once Nick. Please get it right again
Dear Nick, You got it right last time, vetoing the Home Office’s attempt to get the Communications Data Bill into the last Queen’s Speech and instead securing extensive Parliamentary scrutiny of the plans. Please, get it right this time too and veto it once more, as the press are suggesting you might. The likes of [...]
The libel reform O turn – and what the party needs to learn
So the Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Party have reversed their reversal of the party’s views on libel reform, and we’re back to where we started. As Glyn Ley commented on my wall on Facebook, that makes it not so much a U turn as an O turn. The issue at stake has been the ability of [...]
Meanwhile elsewhere in Parliament: Lib Dem bid to axe secret courts loses by 1 vote
10-9. By just 1 vote in committee, a move by Liberal Democrat MPs Julian Huppert and Mike Crockart to axe secret courts from the Justice and Security Bill was lost, beaten by a combination of Conservatives and DUP. Full credit to Julian for pushing the issue this far. He was part of the losing side [...]
Julian Huppert re-selected
Welcome even if unsurprising news: I am delighted and honoured to have been unanimously reselected by @cambridgeldsto stand again for Cambridge in 2015. Thank you. #fb — Julian Huppert (@julianhuppert) January 12, 2013 Congratulations too for Duncan Hames: @julianhuppert Congratulations Julian! That makes two of us (Cambridge and Chippenham), at least. — Duncan Hames (@duncanhames) [...]
Cross-party committee gives damning verdict on Draft Communications Data Bill
The Metro reports: Ministers are … accused of exaggerating to force through new laws to snoop on emails, internet use and phone calls that would lead to the state monitoring citizens’ every move. Supporters of the draft communications data bill are relying on ‘fanciful and misleading’ figures to justify extra powers for police and the [...]
Who’s Following? Politics in the age of social media
That was the title of one of the fringe meetings I spoke at during Liberal Democrat conference in Brighton, appearing alongside Julian Huppert MP, Simon Milner, Public Policy Director at Facebook, Alberto Nardelli of Tweetminster and Chris Yiu, Head of Digital Government, Policy Exchange. You can watch the event in full here:
The Huppert veto is confirmed: Nick Clegg on the Draft Communications Data Bill
It has become a tradition for the weekend at the start of Liberal Democrat federal autumn conferences to feature a Q+A session with the party leader. This time in Brighton I took the opportunity to submit a question about the Draft Communications Data Bill, aka Snoopers’ Charter. With draft legislation currently being examined by a [...]
Conference preview: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
This year, the Liberal Democrat autumn conference has one day per theme, covering jobs, education, environment and tax. Monday is jobs, with policy motions on creating jobs and policy papers on both sustainable prosperity and also on mutuals, employee ownership and workplace democracy. The first of these (F23) may generate some lively debate around an amendment that [...]
Reshuffle thoughts: how does it score against my four criteria?
Ahead of the reshuffle, I posted four criteria against which the Liberal Democrat part of the shuffling should be judged. Now nearly all the details are in, how does it look? Most importantly, have people been put in jobs they’ve got a decent chance of doing well? It’s hard enough being a minister in [...]
