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Labour calls on Raab to abandon Bill of Rights plan

“The Bill of Rights, with its threats to the basic legal protections enjoyed by the British people, the damage to the UK’s reputation for respecting international law and treaties."

Joseph Connor by Joseph Connor
2022-12-12 07:57
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Labour have urged Dominic Raab to abandon plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a new Bill of Rights.

The Justice Secretary had introduced the controversial Bill during his first stint in office but it was then shelved by Liz Truss’s short-lived government.

Shadow Justice Secretary Steve Reed and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Kyle, in a letter to Mr Raab, urged him to “scrap” the plan.

The pair warn that it would have a detrimental impact on the UK justice system, prevent the conviction of foreign terrorists and upset the foundation for the Good Friday Agreement.

They also suggest scrapping the Human Rights Act would “weaken the protection it offers to victims of crime, including severely undermining commitments to prevent violence against women”.

The two Labour frontbenchers argue that the plan “threatens to slow down or even prevent the conviction and potential removal of foreign terrorists, by forcing the security services to pursue them in the European rather than British courts.

.@SteveReedMP and I have written to Dominic Raab pointing out the dangers to peace, progress and stability in Northern Ireland should he persist with a bill of rights that infringes on our treaty commitments under the ECHR 👇 pic.twitter.com/xfzrXLSsXr

— Peter Kyle MP (@peterkyle) December 11, 2022

“This could lead to cases collapsing, as evidence cannot be given to the European Court of Human Rights in secret and the UK’s security services would not wish to expose their agents or operating methods in open court to those who wish to harm our country.”

Arguing that the 1998 agreement and the Human Rights Act are “intertwined”, the Labour MPs tell the justice secretary that “delivering the agreement is one of Labour’s proudest achievements in Government and the ECHR and the Human Rights Act are the scaffolding that upholds it”.

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