The centrepiece of the Cambridge Convention on Modern Liberty was a formal debate on the motion “This House believes that its civil liberties are under grave threat”.
Proposing were:
David Howarth MP (Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Justice)
Prof. Andrew Gamble (Professor of Politics, University of Cambridge)
Opposing were:
Bill Rammell MP (Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs)
Tariq Sadiq (Labour Parliamentary Spokesperson for South Cambridgeshire)
A video of the entire debate is now available here. (TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/azxyu7).
Many thanks to Richard Neill for fiming, editing and publishing this.
Other videos of Cambridge’s local sessions follow over the next few days.