A look at the opinion polls shows that very few Britons are fussed about spies having greater investigatory powers, with many of them in fact on board with it. YouGov has chronicled this over the last few months, regularly asking voters if they felt more should be done "to protect the privacy of ordinary people, even if this puts limits on what the security forces can do", or if more should be done to "help the security forces combat terrorism, even if this means the privacy of ordinary people suffers".