Raab’s right on rights

ONE of the Tories’ most popular election pledges in recent years has been to replace Labour’s broken Human Rights Act.

We hope Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s Bill of Rights lives up to expectations.

By redressing the balance between rights and responsibilities, it aims to stop foreign criminals abusing human rights laws. Free speech will get extra protections.

And it seeks to reassert the superiority of Parliament and UK courts, preventing a repeat of the farce of a foreign judge blocking the first Rwanda flight.

These are sensible plans. But history tells us disentangling Britain from the tentacles of ‘lawfare’ is fraught with difficulty.