Grieve tucks into May

A fringe debate on the Human Rights Act hosted by the Tory Reform Group might not have been a crowd puller. But yesterday’s feline foul-up and the presence of Attorney General Dominic Grieve, a firm advocate of human rights, ensured the event was a sell-out.

If Grieve had been advised against deepening internal animosity on the ‘cat flap’ furore, he ignored the direction. The TRG’s Egremont blog quotes Grieve as saying:

“We need to have a rational debate. We must be more productive than just going for the ‘meow’ factor.”

Then he added:

“The judicial interpretation and case workload of the European Court ought to be a concern for the UK and other European countries. If Britain wants a Bill of Rights we can have one, but we have to accept that the coalition circumscribes what we can do.”