Rishi Sunak has once again been dropping hints about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. This is not credible, says Dr David McGrogan: such a feat would require a Government far more serious than this one.
The Human Rights Act 1998 was a judicialisation of politics, says Dr David McGrogan. "It transfers political decisions away from democratic processes and into the courts, where it will be unsullied by the electorate."
The British people have had enough of their seemingly endless 'obligations' to impoverish themselves for the sake of others, and belatedly politicians are waking up to this, says J Sorel.
The human rights lobby is trying to kick up a stink about Government plans to replace the Human Rights Act. But how can anyone now take it seriously when during the lockdowns it made not a peep?
The result of deploying judicial review as a weapon of political struggle, as has happened in recent decades, was always going to be that the courts would end up having their wings clipped.
The British Bill of Rights will sort out a number of the problems created by Blair's ill-conceived Human Rights Act and ensure the sovereignty of Parliament is accorded much greater respect by judges.
The new Bill of Rights is a disappointment. It won't rein in the judges, just empower British ones at the expense of European ones. It does little about the undermining of parliamentary sovereignty by the lawyerly caste.
