June 2023

The Conservative party has made no secret of its desire to either abolish the Human Rights Act or to replace with it with a Bill of Rights, removing some of the protections within the HRA. Some members of government want to go further and withdraw us from the European Court of Human Rights largely connected with its desire to deport immigrants to Rwanda. At least three of their election manifestos have made plain their distaste for the act.

Both our local MPS – Messrs John Glen and Danny Kruger – have spoken against the act and the analysis of their voting records by They Work for You shows that they generally vote against human rights issues.

So it comes as a surprise to discover that in the current row about the release of information and WhatsApp messages etc to the Covid enquiry, the government is deploying … the Human Rights Act, the very act they want abolished.