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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.”
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
Peaceful protesters are facing increasingly authoritarian clampdowns, including two recent arrests for putting a sticker on a Barclays ATM. LYNDA WALKER reports
