Raab to defend his bill

Human rights committee will grill justice secretary tomorrow

Dominic Raab will be questioned by a committee of MPs and peers tomorrow about his on-off-on — and now possibly off — plans to repeal and replace the Human Rights Act 1998.

But will the justice secretary’s plans ever get off the ground? As the joint committee on human rights observed yesterday, there are “reports emerging that the centrepiece of Dominic …