Civil liberties and free speech

“Like, he's a Brit popper, he's cool, it's all about the vibes. But actually, underneath it, there's a very hard-faced, sour socialism. He will go hard left, this guy, he will.”

“she's stupid even by Cabinet standards. That's saying something. But this authoritarian has launched a very serious attack on free speech”

“they're grasping what the problem is and actually the urgency of it and actually how the public see it, because that is first and foremost how the public see it as a security issue.”

“The successful models to follow are the US and Australia. Those work, but they will not do them because it's labour, right? It's the human rights brigade.”

“I just think it's a form of puritanism. People who just, I promise you that are just people who have this aversion to indulgence.”

“It becomes obsessed with what people are thinking and tries in some way to manage it and restrict it. And that is very sinister when you are the police and you have the full power of the state behind you.”