What do Richard Graham, Conservative MP for Gloucester, and Joseph Goebbels have in common?
If you’re Richard Graham (or a Gloucester constituent) you’re probably hoping the answer is “not much”. But yesterday, while defending the Tory government’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill, Graham inadvertently echoed the words of the man who once said “if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”. He, as Goebbels allegedly did in 1933, announced that when it comes to surveillance, “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear”.
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