The UK government has published its so-called Bill of Rights Bill, which lawyers and campaigners have warned will leave more people vulnerable to human rights violations.
The new legislation will tear up the Human Rights Act 1998 and ensure that rulings from the European Court of Human Rights no longer bind the UK.
Justice secretary Dominic Raab told readers of The Sun that the bill will “curb abuses of the system and reinject a healthy dose of common sense” by “strengthen[ing] traditional UK rights such as freedom of speech – under attack, from expanding privacy law to stifling political correctness – and recognis[ing] the importance of jury trials in the UK”.
