Tag: Independent Human Rights Act Review: Government's Response
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Richard Clayton: The Government’s New Proposals for the Human Rights Act; Part One – The Proposals in Outline
The Conservative Party has opposed the HRA root and branch ever since its enactment. Manifesto commitments to overhaul the HRA were made in 2010, 2015, 2017, and 2019. In 2015 Prime Minister, David Cameron, said he was open to the “nuclear option” of withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights (the ECHR) to ensure…