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What use is the human rights court, says former human rights minister

“What utility is there in the UK being bound any more into the Strasbourg court,” Jack Straw asked in a letter to The Times at the weekend. “Not much” was the answer he gave.

The former home secretary seemed to be suggesting that the UK should keep the Human Rights Act 1998 — which he had piloted through the House of Commons as a Labour MP — while no lon…