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European police will be barred from cooperating with UK if Boris Johnson waters down Human Rights Act
05/02/2020
The prime minister is considering tearing up the Human Rights Act and suspending the European Convention on Human Rights.
Farage asked what the best thing to come out of Brexit is – his response is beyond parody
25/06/2022
The former UKIPer said Brexit 2.0 would be getting Britain out of the European Court of Human Rights... like Russia.
Stephen Delahunty reports on a lawsuit being brought before for the courts to consider the legality of the UK-Morocco Association Agreement
Government refusing to sign up to Brexit safeguards so it can change Human Rights Act, Gove admits
27/05/2020
Brussels wants UK to commit to human rights in writing as condition of trade deal.
Government scraps plan to enforce human rights with Brexit trade deals, leaked letter reveals
28/08/2022
Human rights to be kept ‘separate’ from trade talks despite earlier promises.
Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel’s plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention camp.
‘Unprecedented levels of self-harm and suicidal thoughts’ were recorded at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre in late 2020
It has not even been five months since the end of the Brexit transition period and there have been armed patrol vessels in the Channel.
The European Convention on Human Rights came into effect on 3 September 1953. Some people talk about the European Convention as if it was imposed on the unwilling British by our continental neighbours, but the reality may surprise you.
Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU): EU values. The EU’s founding values are ‘human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities’
Human Rights after Brexit: Workshop report
25/07/2019
A key initiative in the Conservative Party’s 2015 manifesto was to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998. ... On 25 July 2016, a workshop was held at UCL to discuss these plans, and their implications in light of the UK’s new political environment post-Brexit.
The European elections on 23-26 May are a key moment for candidates to commit to protect our fundamental rights. It’s a chance for European citizens to recognize that the European Parliament helps protect the rule of law, and the human rights and dignity of people living across the EU and those outside its borders.
Britain’s TUC and Indian unions alike have raised concerns about deteriorating work conditions for workers, low pay and exploitation.
The Irish political party pushing to unify the island wants Ottawa to halt post-Brexit trade talks with Britain, arguing that London is undermining the agreement that brokered peace between Catholics and Protestants.
Leo Varadkar warns that Brexit, aid cuts and talk of abandoning human rights treaty ‘not the Britain I know’.
"Happy Magna Carta day! Let's celebrate due process and equality before the law since 1215! Or, as the Tories would have it, meddling lefty lawyers."
Wanting to forge new trading relationships after Brexit and securing them are two very different things.
Big majority in EU parliament vote for corporate due diligence along entire supply chains, including for UK businesses.
Ministers warned against trade deal with Gulf states over ‘appalling’ human rights record
22/06/2022
Trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan kicking off talks in Saudi Arabia.
Proposal to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights is effort to make government ‘untouchable’, say critics.
Police have seized amplifiers and speakers used by a long-running anti-Brexit protest outside the House of Parliament, under a new anti-protest law pushed through by Priti Patel.
The Public Accounts Committee warned of "trade-offs" across "agriculture, the environment and human rights”.
Britain has received demands to roll back its human rights standards in exchange for progress on post-Brexit trade deals, including from some countries that ministers are pushing to secure agreements with.
There is a split within the Cabinet over the UK’s continued membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.