David Davis’s Daily Telegraph piece makes clear that he will be running as a Conservative party candidate in the by-election, something about which there has been some confusion. He also presents Brown and his cabinet with this challenge:
I suspect that Nick Wood is already booking a venue and that Team DD is preparing to ‘empty chair’ the government.I will debate with any one of them – any time, anywhere – what Gordon Brown euphemistically referred to as the “next chapter of British liberty”.
One other thing worth noting is that Davis inadvertently makes clear that Dominic Grieve did get too forward on his skis in his first set of interviews as shadow Home Secretary. Davis’ version of the party line on 42 days is that he and Cameron agreed that:
a Conservative government would immediately repeal 42 days, in the absence of the most compelling new evidence.
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