UK human rights act
"We must ask if the government have the right priorities to tackle this epidemic of violence."
Amnesty: 'Human rights aren’t political; they cover everyone'.
It sounded remarkably familiar.
Human rights, equality, free speech, privacy and rule of law.
David Cameron, Chris Grayling and apparently now Michael Gove feel we'd be better off if we axed an act that's held the powerful to account over and over again, and instead allowed those with a vested interest in keeping their power unchecked to limit when and to whom human rights apply. Funny that... If you've been paying attention to party spin recently, you'll have seen our HRA suddenly rechristened "Labour's" Human Rights Act. So it's worth clearing up at the start that it was passed in 1998 with overwhelming cross-party support and Tory leadership endorsement. It was a long-held ambition of the Society of Conservative Lawyers.