David Cameron set out plans to control the power of the state and make it more accountable to people in a speech at Imperial College.
He attacked Labour for having “diminished personal freedom and diluted political accountability” over the last twelve years.
And he promised, “At the heart of our programme for government will be our intention to change fundamentally the balance of power between the citizen and the state so that ultimately it’s people in control of their government, not the other way round.”
David said a Conservative Government would revoke the “unjustified and unreasonable” powers that let authorities enter your home without your permission, and strengthen the right to trial by jury.
He promised to scrap the ID card scheme and remove innocent people’s records from the DNA database.
And he announced plans to open up information and set public data free:
"In the first year of the next Conservative Government, we will find the most useful information in twenty different areas ranging from information about the NHS to information about schools and road traffic and publish it so people can use it."
David stressed that, taken together, these measures would “increase personal freedom and political accountability, restore trust, and help bring about the new politics we need so badly.”
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