Scrap The Human Rights Act And Take Back Control

FIVE years ago the people of Britain voted to take back control of our country. Yet, while the result of the 2016 EU referendum has now been honored, we cannot be said to have truly wrestled back control of the nation.

- Sir John Hayes MP

By transferring sovereignty from our people’s Parliament to Brussels and transforming our constitution, the last Labour government handed power to unelected bodies.

Even more damagingly, it established a legal straitjacket around our politics, taking the power to determine what we say, do and even dare to think.

While the architect of these reforms, Tony Blair, is now disempowered, the changes he forced through continue to pervade politics. In fact, in many ways, we continue to live in Blair’s Britain.

New Labour’s constitutional vandalism has driven a wedge through British society.

While this is most obvious in Scottish devolution – which has weakened the Union and trapped the people of Scotland in a neverending debate about independence – the effects of the Human Rights Act and the Equalities Act have been even more poisonous.

Passed in the dying days of the Labour government, the Equalities Act, rather than being concerned with genuine equality of opportunity, provides the foundation for legal discrimination by establishing a privileged position for “protected groups”.