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Queen's speech confirms government plans to overhaul human rights law in Britain
Liberty warns the government ‘are quite literally rewriting the rules in their favour so they become untouchable’
A mobile billboard van, commissioned by human rights organisation Liberty, outside the Houses of Parliament, London, as part of their campaign responding to the proposed scrapping of the Human Rights Act
THE government has confirmed plans to launch a major overhaul of human rights law in Britain despite warnings the move would have dire consequences for the rights of citizens.
The pledge to introduce a new Bill of rights, likely to involve scrapping Britain’s Human Rights Act, was announced in the Queen’s Speech today.
It came after more than 50 groups, including Amnesty, Liberty and the British Institute of Human Rights, warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday that repealing the Act would “undermine the global system of rights and protections.”
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