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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

‘False narrative’: campaigners say British bill of rights could undermine free speech

Justice secretary Dominic Raab delivering his statement on a bill of rights in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Justice secretary Dominic Raab delivering his statement on a bill of rights in the House of Commons on Wednesday. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Reuters

Free speech campaigners have condemned the UK government’s boast that the planned British bill of rights will boost freedom of expression, claiming that it will actually undermine it.

The bill, published on Wednesday, says in clause 4 that on matters of free speech “a court must give great weight to the importance of protecting the right”.

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