Cameron has betrayed every principle he mentions in his Magna Carta speech

‘There are some political speeches which are so brazenly hypocritical you have to presume they’re doing it on purpose. David Cameron’s Magna Carta speech today is firmly in that category. In a short statement, the prime minister will reel off accomplishments which he himself has done his best to destroy during his time in government. It is a quite staggering moment of insincerity.

“Eight hundred years ago, on this day, King John put his seal to a document that would change the world,” the prime minister starts. “We talk about the ‘law of the land’ and this is the very land where that law – and the rights that flow from it – took root.”

He then lists what the law of the land entails:’

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