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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah

Raab says UK bill of rights will stop free speech being ‘whittled away by wokery’

Deputy prime minister and justice secretary Dominic Raab arriving in Downing Street on 23 March 2022.
Deputy prime minister and justice secretary Dominic Raab arriving in Downing Street on 23 March 2022. Photograph: DW Images/Rex/Shutterstock

Dominic Raab has disclosed proposals to replace Labour’s Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights which he believes will enable the principle of free speech to become a legal “trump card”.

Raab, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, has argued that the plan will better protect the press in exposing wrongdoing and said he feared free speech was being “whittled away” by “wokery and political correctness”.

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