The Tories Hate You
Banning protest, suppressing voters, and now diluting the Human Rights Act: the only right Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party cares about is its right to screw over British workers.
British prime minister Boris Johnson visits the Royal Air Force station on the island of Anglesey, North Wales, on January 27, 2022. (CARL RECINE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Wounded as Boris Johnson is, it is worth remembering that his government still has plans for the most significant attack on human rights in twenty years.
By that I do not mean the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, or the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, bad as both are. I am thinking, rather, of the government’s consultation on watering down the Human Rights Act.
For sixteen years, Conservative MPs have been calling for that act to be repealed. Their voices have been amplified by the right-wing press, with stories blaming immigration on lawyers finding human rights defenses for their clients.
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