Tories pledge to scrap Human Rights Act
"We do not require instruction on this from judges in Strasbourg" claimed Cameron in his speech at Tory Party conference, as he promised to scrap the 1998 Human Rights Act and reform Britain's relationship with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Grayling, the Justice Secretary, has set out proposals that would see the Human Rights Act which enshrines the ECHR into UK law replaced with a "British bill of rights" but it is as yet unclear which rights the Tories feel we should and should not have. Grayling says "we can no longer tolerate this mission creep" referring to the idea that the...