Is it truly, though? Replacing the Human Rights Act is a perennial Tory pet project. It has been on the agenda for two decades and I suspect many Conservatives will be agitating for it even after...
Is it truly, though? Replacing the Human Rights Act is a perennial Tory pet project. It has been on the agenda for two decades and I suspect many Conservatives will be agitating for it even after the next general election. Conservative eurosceptics will never back down — it's just that they aren't in the ascendant right now.
Is it really? Well of course that is a matter of perspective. Relative to other news from the past four or five years, yes I believe it is. Had this bill gone through, a lot of people's lives...
Is it really? Well of course that is a matter of perspective. Relative to other news from the past four or five years, yes I believe it is. Had this bill gone through, a lot of people's lives would have been made significantly worse.
This being on the agenda for the future doesn't detract from the current action.
I'm not sure. At risk of seeming morose, I think this announcement wasn't borne out of any hard work by groups such as Humanists UK, but simply boils down to Dominic Raab no longer being justice...
I'm not sure. At risk of seeming morose, I think this announcement wasn't borne out of any hard work by groups such as Humanists UK, but simply boils down to Dominic Raab no longer being justice secretary and therefore there not being a strong Tory party progenitor in the driving seat at the moment (Chalk is a moderate on European issues).
I also doubt that a British Bill of Rights would have ever passed in this Parliament either, but that's not a qualified judgement. Too many Conservatives are opposed to it and too much political capital would have needed to be expended in order to do it - which Trussites would rather spend upending the economic consensus and Team Sunak would rather spend trying to meet their five pledges.
So indeed, it's a matter of perspective: rather than a large win, I see this as being the more natural course of events.
During a period where all political news in the UK feels very dreary and often downright dystopian, this feels like a massive win.
Is it truly, though? Replacing the Human Rights Act is a perennial Tory pet project. It has been on the agenda for two decades and I suspect many Conservatives will be agitating for it even after the next general election. Conservative eurosceptics will never back down — it's just that they aren't in the ascendant right now.
Is it really? Well of course that is a matter of perspective. Relative to other news from the past four or five years, yes I believe it is. Had this bill gone through, a lot of people's lives would have been made significantly worse.
This being on the agenda for the future doesn't detract from the current action.
I'm not sure. At risk of seeming morose, I think this announcement wasn't borne out of any hard work by groups such as Humanists UK, but simply boils down to Dominic Raab no longer being justice secretary and therefore there not being a strong Tory party progenitor in the driving seat at the moment (Chalk is a moderate on European issues).
I also doubt that a British Bill of Rights would have ever passed in this Parliament either, but that's not a qualified judgement. Too many Conservatives are opposed to it and too much political capital would have needed to be expended in order to do it - which Trussites would rather spend upending the economic consensus and Team Sunak would rather spend trying to meet their five pledges.
So indeed, it's a matter of perspective: rather than a large win, I see this as being the more natural course of events.
While this is of course hugely positive, it raises the question of what, if anything, this government has achieved?