Shock resignation is a wake-up call to the British people


David Davis’ resignation from his job as MP and Shadow Home Secretary yesterday, forcing a by-election in which he will stand again in protest over the issue of the 42 day detention of suspected terrorists, surprised everyone.

In two notoriously opportunistic and hard-nosed professions, politics and the media, in both of which personal convictions in the 21st Century are too often limited to expressing passionately-held beliefs over which restaurant serves the best caviare, it’s no wonder that we’ve since seen a plethora of career politicians on all sides, and political commentators, utterly incapable of understanding why Davis did what he did.

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Friday, June 13th, 2008

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