Pot, kettle? So what!
To some commenters: if we are breaching rules, let them call us out for it. *If* they aren't much better, it shouldn't affect our moral stance.
Don't turn this into a "whataboutism?"
Incidentally, I'd love Boris, Mogg, Farrage, and all the other chancers to explain this:
"Meanwhile, the UK's surveillance regime has repeatedly been found to fall short of European standards. The letter noted a recent ruling from the European Court of Human Rights that found various failings on the government's oversight of bulk interception of communications."
So, what about all this "taking back control" that the BRexiters bang on about? Surely it's not the case already where the UK does whatever the hell it wants when it cares, and uses the EU as an excuse in other cicrumstances? Surely not!