Sentences with phrase «fundamentally illiberal»

Ultimately, this policy goes against the coalition agreement, against Conservative pre-election policy and is fundamentally an illiberal, intrusive scheme that will do little to improve national security and do everything to turn us into a nation of suspects.

Agreeing that the government's measures «are fundamentally illiberal», Tom Clougherty, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, added: «It seems to me that tobacco is at the coalface of a much bigger cultural battle, in which capitalism, individualism and rationality are all coming under relentless attack by the enemies of freedom.»

In an online article for the i newspaper, Laws said: «You can not be a leader of a liberal party while holding fundamentally illiberal and prejudiced views, which fail to respect our party's great traditions of promoting equality for all our citizens.