Sentences with phrase «illiberal policy»

«It's deeply regrettable that the home secretary wishes to adopt such an invasive and illiberal policy,» Big Brother Watch director Daniel Hamilton told politics.co.uk.

The Lib Dems have had fair warning that abolition of the CTF is a deeply illiberal policy.

In which case, we'll have to accept some of their illiberal policies we don't like, they'll accept some of our liberal policies they don't like, we'll each jettison some of the impossible policies we've had to include because our activists cleave to them, and on the rest we'll work out a compromise.

Not exact matches

Clarke's Green Paper on sentencing policy reform, while not by any means ideal, is easily the best thing we can hope for on several fronts, including especially the national scandal of IPPs; and Clarke, with LibDem help, is an essential brake on illiberal proposals, instincts and policies elsewhere in government, especially the home office (as usual).

Fair enough, though we need to see a lot more details of Red Tory policy before we can really judge how liberal / illiberal it is in this sense.

If this illiberal populism takes hold, anti-trade, anti-immigration and anti-capitalist policies will proliferate.

The best way to combat illiberal government policy is not to blame the Remainers for it: most of us loathe such policies, and Remainers as a group are hardly in charge of the political agenda anyway.

Clegg also used his interview to state that the Conservatives should not misinterpret the election result and assume that people had voted for «illiberal, punitive» policies.

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.