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Oddly enough, Simon Hughes has said that Davis will be re-standing as a Convervative, not an Independent.
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Whatever the name is, he'll be standing on his own, as standing on a civil liberties platform is not in the Cameron manual. I really hope this explodes the myth the moving ever more towards authoritarian nanny-state rule makes us safer. Poor and frightened, more like.
Of course, once he's elected (and he's already left the Shadow Cabinet, replaced by Dominic Grieve) he'll be an immensely authoritative figure within the Tory party, and one with interesting links to the Lib Dems, who are moving rightwards anyway. I suspect he at least partly wants to diminish the influence of the Tory hard right, who will now, if they want to keep up, have to resign and stand on a platform of bombing Tehran or never withdrawing troops from Iraq or something.
Comment from someone who's met him, who's delighted:
http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.co...of-honour.html