Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, leaves Downing Street, Westminster, London, after the first Cabinet meeting with Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. Picture date: Wednesday October 26, 2022.
SENIOR representatives of City law firms have become the latest figures to speak out against the Tories’ Bill of Rights, warning the reforms would be “bad for business.”
Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said the Bill will return to Parliament in the “coming weeks” after it was shelved by former PM Liz Truss in September.
The proposed legislation seeks to replace the Human Rights Act, reducing the influence of the European Court of Human Rights in British courts.
Evidence to peers from medical leaders, patient safety officials and the children’s commissioner has intensified fears that the Bill’s safeguards are inadequate, writes ADAM JAMES POLLOCK
The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP – and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES