This is framed wrong: It isn't UK against "Big Tech" it's the UK government against privacy and, to some extent, basic logic. That is, the UK government demande

This is framed wrong: It isn't UK against "Big Tech" it's the UK government against privacy and, to some extent, basic logic. That is, the UK government demanded something that's impossible to deliver, and would have ruined the privacy rights of its own citizens had it been able to force companies to deliver the next closest thing which actually got the government its core demands of the police being able to snoop on everyone's messages.