LABOUR branded the Tories new Bill of Rights a “con” today, warning that the reforms will affect everyone “who relies on the state to protect them from harm.”
Introducing the proposed legislation to Parliament, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab described plans to override the European Court of Human Rights as “principled and pragmatic.”
He told MPs: “Our Bills of Rights will strengthen our proud tradition of freedom, it will demarcate a clearer separation of powers,” and “ultimately it will make us freer, it will help keep our streets safer.”
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
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



