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Truss reportedly shelves plans to replace Human Rights Act with new ‘bill of rights’
A mobile billboard van, commissioned by human rights organisation Liberty, outside the Houses of Parliamen as part of its campaign against the government's proposed scrapping of the Human Rights Act, in May 2022

THE proposed “Bill of rights,” described by human rights groups as a “Tory power grab,” has reportedly been shelved by Liz Truss.

The legislation, which aimed to replace the Human Rights Act, had been championed by former justice secretary Dominic Raab, who was left out of the new Prime Minister’s Cabinet earlier this week.

Within hours of his Mr Raab’s ousting, Ms Truss is said to have told her top ministers that the plans had been pulled.

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