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Amidst the furore currently surrounding the publication of the Sue Gray report, and the Metropolitan Police’s belated request that she redact from it those elements most likely to be of interest to the public, and to the Tory MPs who have…
Last Saturday, immediately after the Dominic Cummings story broke, and in a carefully choreographed social media campaign, a number of senior ministers took to Twitter to echo the Prime Minister’s support for his adviser. They quoted the…
In my last post, I promised to keep LabourList readers updated on the Tory plans for constitutional reform. While not even the scope of the 'Constitution, Democracy and Rights Commission' has yet been established, in two recent…
Given the rage of the Tory government and its supporters in the media at the judicial interventions since the Brexit vote – who could forget the Daily Mail’s "Enemies of the People" headline? – it was hardly surprising that the courts…
I suggested earlier this week that the Tory plans to repeal the Human Rights Act were legally illiterate. I did so because I assumed that not even they would suggest leaving the European Convention on Human Rights, a convention set up…
In a crowded field, there is one issue which can always evoke splenetic outrage in the Daily Mail and the Tory backbenches: the Human Rights Act. And so it came as no surprise that its abolition ‘once and for all’ formed an integral part of…
Pity poor Ed Miliband. Think of all of the weeks of preparation which he and his team must have spent on his conference speech, the last before the General Election. The speech which was designed to set out Labour’s vision for the country…
