Good morning. Today’s newsletter was meant to be about the knots Labour has been tying itself in over whether to support the rail strikes, but then the Conservatives did something even more on-brand. A week after the European court of human rights (ECHR) drew an outcry from the right by blocking the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, Dominic Raab has announced plans to create a new bill of rights that will say the UK can ignore those rulings in the future.
New legislation will be introduced to parliament today that effectively abolishes the Human Rights Act (which institutes the ECHR’s authority in the UK). It’s been in the works a long time – but, Haroon Siddique reports this morning, a senior government source acknowledges that the Rwanda story “reinforced and strengthened the case for what we’re doing”.
