Ed Davey calls for ‘new Magna Carta’ to protect British rights and commitments

Ed Davey calls for ‘new Magna Carta’ to protect British rights and commitments

Sir Ed also used his conference speech to say Britain should decouple its nuclear deterrent from dependence on American maintenance. Britain should have a new written constitution to make it “resistant to authoritarian creeps like Donald Trump”, Sir Ed Davey has said. The Liberal Democrat leader called for a “new Magna Carta” to protect the UK’s commitments to human rights, the NHS and freedom of expression from being dismantled, as he made a sp…