在副首相尼克·克列格5月发表的第一次重要政策演说中，他声明要推翻布莱尔所建成的“老大哥”国家（意指国家监控公民一切行为 ） ： 不再有身份证或者人口登记，对DNA信息的存储设立新限制，收紧对闭路电视监控的规管（此网络已经令英国人成为全球受监控程度最严重的人民）等等。
In May, in his first major policy speech, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced the sweeping away of the “Big Brother” state that Blair had constructed: no more ID cards or national identity register, new restrictions on the storage of DNA, tighter regulation of the closed-circuit television surveillance that had made the British the most monitored people on earth, and so on.