Marina Hyde recounts several past lapses ascribed to Dominic Raab (Dominic Raab may have the most terrible record in government, but at least it’s perfectly formatted, 6 December), but his legislative plans for the near future in his role as justice secretary are of even more immediate concern.
He has announced that he is reintroducing his bill of rights, which seeks to repeal the Human Rights Act and dilute our commitment to the European human rights convention. He is doing this in defiance of almost universal opposition. When the government correctly sought the advice of an independent commission led by the former court of appeal judge Sir Peter Gross, it was told plainly that no such measure was justified. The government’s own public consultation received a similar rejection from the great majority of those who responded. Though Raab stubbornly persisted with his bill in his previous spell as justice secretary, Liz Truss dropped it as almost her first act on becoming prime minister.
