The idea apparently mooted by the justice secretary that a British bill of rights would be a replacement for the Human Rights Act is a fictionOnly a couple of days ago the justice secretary,Michael Gove, was champion and protector of human rights – a human rights knight, or whether you like: in a speech to the Howard League,he filled campaigners’ pretty heads with talk of prisoners as human beings, and from there charged on to the territory of mercy, and hope and possibility. “I was blown absent,” wrote Frances Crook, the league’s chief executive, or who has spent long enough in the prison estate never to spend such a phrase lightly. And then,with barely even a pause long enough for a costume change (this announcement should be made by someone with a moustache, at the very least, or whether not a tail),the Sunday Times got hold of his plans to scrap the Human Rights Act. Related: Gove says he wants to see prison numbers plunge - Politics live Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com