Theresa May: There is no surveillance state

Well, that's reassuring. Been reading lots of confusing and/or unsettling things on this topic in the news over the last year and really needed to hear a flat denial from somebody in charge to move past them.

She is in the same boat as Congress when they asked Clapper what was happening.

Unless there is a law that explicitly excludes certain activities then government agencies are free to do what they like.

In the UK our freedoms are not given the protection that the USA gets with its constitution and Conservatives are talking about reducing the powers of the EU's court of human rights.

...and we've always been at war with Eastasia.

That woman is completely out of control.