That’s the question posed today by the popular PoliticalBetting.com website, who are covering the Convention on Modern Liberty.

Damn right it will!

With the launch of the Freedom Bill from the Liberal Democrats and a fringe event at today’s Convention looking at where the Conservatives truly position themselves on civil liberties, it seems the opposition parties are forming an offensive.

Civil Liberties is one of those issues that will rarely if ever garner electoral support for its political movements. Haltemprice & Howden still stands out as a largely anomalous campaign. It is staggering that in 30 years of asking, the issue still doesn’t register on the Ipsos MORI issue tracker, and is unlikely to if it remains in its current format. The Mori options, generated by respondants, are almost entirely ‘tax and spend’ priorities, rather than significant concerns, and I think the poll gets treated as such. Getting more abstract principles to break through as principal concerns is very difficult.

This comment is fair game, but I think we’ve reached a point where our liberty and freedoms are at risk like never before (in non-wartime).

There was an interesting question from a member of the audience at the Convention this morning on how we engage “Sun” readers rather than “Guardian” readers. The Freedom Bill from the Lib Dems is a great starting point - but as it’s party political it may not reach the masses, who are often turned off the moment they say the name of a political party.

Hopefully as a result of this convention we will have formed a clear message to take to all members of the United Kingdom. If that message can influence the decision makers not just in political parties, but in the media, academia and volunteer organisations, the message will reach wider society in a coherent, clear way. Then, and only then, it might just become THE issue at the next General Election.