Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has joined his SNP colleagues in voting against the UK Government’s ‘intrusive and flawed’ Investigatory Powers Bill. Mr Newlands spoke during the Third Reading debate and raised concern about the provisions which would allow the government to record and retain a note of every website that is visited by members of the public. Mr Newlands was a member of the Bill Committee which scrutinised this legislation on a line-by-li

Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, has accused the Prime Minister of performing a "complete U-turn”and sacrificing civil liberties at the expense of “ineffective, costly and intrusive” security powers. Gavin Newlands MP, who sat on the Bill Committee for the Investigatory Powers Bill, said it has been considered one of the most intrusive pieces of legislation in the Western world, and proposes to overhaul the framework governing the use of surveillance by