From a UK politics perspective I don't really get this. New labour certainly have an authoritarian streak. I remember when they tried to introduce ID cards but

From a UK politics perspective I don't really get this. New labour certainly have an authoritarian streak. I remember when they tried to introduce ID cards but there was a load of push back. But they are also somewhat friendlier to 'the youf' but this seems squarely aimed at the Daily Mail brigade. It just seems like they're trying to out conservative, the Conservatives. Maybe I'm trying to make sense out of something that isn't?