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Bill of rights?

Or ragbag of restrictions?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jun 22, 2022
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The government is to publish its bill of rights bill later today. As we can see from the opening page I reproduce below, it seeks to “repeal and replace the Human Rights Act 1998”.

Many of the proposals to be introduced by the justice secretary Dominic Raab were trailed in the Queen’s Speech and I discussed them last month.

The real Bill of Rights (1689)…
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