Re: "wanted to put the UK's position "beyond doubt."
The EU says the data retention is overly broad and breaches human rights, so the law is invalid...
So what are you going to do? Make another piece of law that does exactly the aame thing that has just been declared illegal? Yeah, because that will work...
Well, it will work for another couple of years, until it is heard by the ECHR and invalidated again, whereupon the circus will start again.