David Cameron “really wanted to leave” the European Convention on Human Rights when he was leader of the opposition, David Davis MP […]

A Conservative government will withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights after the 2015 election, Martin Howe QC made clear yesterday evening, unless European countries agree their “British Bill of Rights” fulfils the UK’s international obligations.

The QC most closely […]

The Conservative plan for a “British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” is finally being made clear today. Here is the full Tory policy document, with my detailed comments. The tone of the proposals is […]

Here’s the Conservative policy document to be unveiled today.

Click on the bottom left of the viewer for full screen mode, if you’d like to see my detailed comments on the text, including quite a few points made in it that […]

Here’s the human rights passage from David Cameron’s speech to the Conservative conference today. He gave no detail, but seemed to signal that the Conservatives will choose what earlier this week I called Option […]

Liberty’s director is a great communicator, both in front of an audience and in the media; and partly because of that, this […]

For once, there’s no legal controversy about American and potential British military action in Iraq. I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’d be unlawful […]

Private Chelsea Manning, currently serving 35 years in a US military prison for offences relating to the disclosure of classified documents to Wikileaks, is now taking legal action against the US Department of Defense and others to compel them, by […]

The main constitutional business that ought to be on MPs’ minds at the moment is how to deliver the party leaders’ “Vow” to grant “extensive […]