Churchill’s Legacy
The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act
Two conservatives argue that the Human Rights Act belongs to a tradition their own side helped build.
Oborne and Norman make a conservative case for the Human Rights Act, arguing that it belongs to a tradition their own party helped build, with Churchill among the founders of the European Convention, rather than to the New Labour politics it is usually blamed on. A short pamphlet-style book written into a live argument about repeal.
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Shami Chakrabarti
They do something really important, which is to write – from a conservative point of view – about the Human Rights Act, which of course has been so denigrated and attacked from the centre right and the right of politics in Britain, who saw it as this horrible New Labour political correctness kind of thing. As two very proud conservative thinkers, they explain some of the history and philosophy of the Act.
Interview · December 2010
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