BRITAIN is already setting a “dangerous precedent” to the world by “undermining” human rights, Amnesty said yesterday, with Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act still in the pipeline.

The rights charity’s annual report included a stern reproach to Prime Minister David Cameron’s government for spying on the records of rights groups and undermining their work.

The Foreign Office admitted last year that human rights are no longer a “top priority” for the government.