No 10 to set out sweeping plans to override power of human rights court

The justice secretary, Dominic Raab, is to announce plans to replace Britain’s Human Rights Act with a new bill of rights. Photograph: Joe Giddens/PA

Downing Street is to set out sweeping plans to override the power of Europe’s human rights court just days after a judge in Strasbourg blocked the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda.

The abolition of the Human Rights Act (HRA), including reducing the influence of the European court of human rights (ECHR), will be introduced before parliament on Wednesday in what the government described as a restatement of Britain’s sovereignty.