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Wish I'd voted Labour now (voted Conservative). It'd be the same wasteful spending but £6k tuition fees instead of £9k, slower privatisation of education and health, and at least they U-turn on stupidity like this when pressured.

They basically already had these powers so I don't expect much effect but really they shouldn't have any right to it except by getting a property search warrant. Everyone with something to hide is using encrypted communications anyway so this won't affect them - maybe it'll increase successful prosecutions by somewhere in the single-digit range?