This is the correct response. Either everyone has protection or no one has. Not that I'd trust apple anyway but by pulling the service your average person is likely to make some noise because they can feel the effect.

The incumbent government is circling the drain and are, it seems, determined to leave a trail of destruction and burned bridges for their successors to repair.

My opinion is that the US already has access to Apple devices data. If we consider this to be true, what the UK is trying to do it's to match a possible enemy capabilities. Is this a valid point though? This woudn't make this action less wrong, I must to be clear, but it would be more undestandable.

As a UK citizen, I totally support this. The more that the average voter is disconvenienced because of proposed law changes like this and the (unenforcable) anti-porn laws, the more likely they are to actually pressure their MP or change how they vote.

There’s legitimate criticism to be made for Apple, but this is something I really appreciate about them.

Apple may be sold to China. To set us all free. It relys too much on outsourcing and false information, real information is kept in china, sometimes they give everyone a different name. Taxes were so high and the United States was a blend of different places, this secret thing goes on where it’s different places after dark or in different areas, where they call it some other country. It’d take a communist party to control them all or to control all of the ones they use.

Huh, for once I am siding with Apple. Weird feeling.

Those proposals will never be made law and acted upon.

It's infeasible nonsense to pander to the Daily Mail reading curtain-twitchers. They've had 13 years to try and do this. If they wanted to (and indeed if it was in any way possible), they'd have done it already.

It'll be just "Vote for us and we'll make your children safe from nonces and muzzies!" until the end of time.

Face what and iMess who?

this is advertising and should be removed