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You’ll regret not having a Human Rights Act when Labour get back in

It’s bad being bossed about from Strasbourg. But the risks of the alternative are worse

Prime Minister David Cameron (L) meets with French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Downing Street on October 6, 2014 in London, England. M. Valls is on a two day visit to London. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 October 2014
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I’ve been thinking about the Conservative party’s proposal for a Bill of Rights and am finding it difficult to make up my mind. On the one hand, I like the idea of making the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom the ultimate guarantor of our human rights rather than the European Court.

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