Damian Green MP speaks to ResPublica
ResPublica was delighted to host an evening speech by Shadow Immigration Minister, Damian Green MP, on the subject of civil liberties, entitled ‘Poor People Need Civil Liberties Too,’ at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on Tuesday 2nd March.
Event Details
- Date:
- 2 March 2010
- Time:
- - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
- Location:
- NESTA
1 Plough Place
London EC4A
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ResPublica was delighted to host an evening speech by Shadow Immigration Minister, Damian Green MP, on the subject of civil liberties, entitled ‘Poor People Need Civil Liberties Too,’ at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts on Tuesday 2nd March. To watch the speech in full click here.
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"...Only the innovators on our side can stem the tide of the innovators on 'theirs.' And it is not in regulating or auditing the innovators in our communities that we will develop community innovation and ethos – and so real power - but by reforming the concrete connections of the human commons of the future, and so binding future innovators to the cause of helping those communities..."
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"...Despite the Government’s woeful record on civil liberties, the Conservatives have been for the most part silent on their substantive views towards this crucial issue. As Francesca Klug notes, it remains unclear how the promise for a British Bill of Rights will redress these faults. There is little discussion from the right of rescinding Labour’s more illiberal laws, and then-Shadow Home Secretary David Davis’ principled-if-confusing resignation over 42 days was treated with indifference or embarrassment by the Tories..."
