A bad move for the Sun

I don’t trust this Government, the police or the State bureaucracy to discriminate between keeping an eye out for our well-being and spying on us.
Information is power. And the authorities — national and local — have far too much of the stuff already.

The best so far that the Sun can muster in support of David Davis,from Trevor Kavanagh's column this morning and perhaps that lack of support could be significant.

The paper after all have supported the 42 day bill and is firmly behind the idea of ID cards.
Most Sun readers will instinctively support 42 days’ detention without trial for terror suspects if it helps prevent an atrocity on the streets of Britain.
They would accept ID cards as a sensible way of co-ordinating swathes of information already in the public domain if it made life easier as well as more secure.

However the paper up to now has been quiet on the issue.It is now becoming increasingly unlikely that Kelvin MacKenzie will stand in the by election.

Writing in the Independent this morning Stephen Glover observes

it is possible that some other people are about to make a mistake that could surpass Mr Davis's............If they (the Sun)have any sense they will promptly lower it, and go back to what they are best at doing, and have spent their time on this earth doing – producing newspapers.
In democracies, governments do not own newspapers, though they try to manipulate them, and sometimes succeed. For their part, newspapers and their proprietors do not own governments,