The battle against Raab’s ‘Bill of Rights’ will be hard-fought – but it is necessary
On 31st March 1968, Dr Martin Luther King gave a famous address at the National Cathedral in Washington…
Human Rights Act
Labour must be confident in making the case for the Human Rights Act
Just a few months after Labour’s 1997 landslide general election victory, the new government published a white paper…
18 Labour peers break whip in bid to ban murder, torture, rape in ‘spycops’ bill
18 Labour peers have defied the whip to vote in favour of reinserting an amendment that would specifically…
The genocide amendment offers MPs the chance to define what the UK stands for
When a landslide majority government faces a rebellion that would potentially derail its post-Brexit legislative agenda, it is…
The history of the Human Rights Act, in conversation with Francesca Klug
Matthew Turner and I were recently joined by Professor Francesca Klug, a renowned human rights academic and member…
Why the new ‘independent review’ of the Human Rights Act is worrying
The Conservative government launched an ‘independent review of the Human Rights Act’ this week. After years of huffing and…
Lammy slams government review into Human Rights Act as “bonkers”
David Lammy has described as “bonkers” the decision by the government to launch a review of the Human…
A Tory majority would destroy our human rights
Although barely 20 years old, the Human Rights Act (HRA) is one of the most important pieces of…
Diane Abbott: An important day
Sign up to LabourList’s morning email for everything Labour, every weekday morning. The House of Commons does not…
Richard Burgon: May has sacked another justice secretary but Tories’ record remains one of cuts and privatisation
No-one in the legal profession will have mourned the passing of Liz Truss’s time at the Ministry of…
