Discuss - Government Human Rights Act - Keep the Human Rights Act

Are you in favour of keeping the Human Rights Act?

Alliance Party We also support efforts to ensure that human rights are at the heart of the EU settlement. Alliance believes that human rights protect us all and are an essential part of a modern and fair society alliance-2014-european-manifesto

Conservative The Conservatives want to scrap the Human Rights Act, replacing it with a British Bill of Rights that gives both Parliament and the UK court system the 'final say'. The new bill will stop the European Court of Human Rights forcing Britain to change our laws, make Britain the ultimate arbiter of human rights in this country, balance rights with responsibilities and stop terrorists and foreign criminals abusing human rights to avoid deportation. Source: https://www.conservatives.com/ShareTheFacts.aspx

DUP • Support, as a minimum, the reform of the Human Rights Act, to remove the ‘right to family life’ defence against deportation upon conviction for a serious criminal offence. http://dev.mydup.com/images/uploads/publications/DUP_Crime_A5_v5.pdf

Green Party Citizens of any country should, however, be able to pursue both companies and countries who have behaved in ways which violate their human rights in European courts. http://greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/European%20Manifesto%202014.pdf

Labour Labour would "Lead by example on human rights, up holding them domestically through the Human Rights Act, and advocating them overseas." Source: Labour Party Manifesto, http://b.3cdn.net/labouruk/89012f856521e93a4d_phm6bflfq.pdf

Liberal Democrat In government, Liberal Democrats refused to support the Conservatives' plans to scrap the Human Rights Act and their latest plans show how they cannot be trusted to protect the human rights of individuals. http://www.libdems.org.uk/tories-pick-choose-human-rights

Plaid Cymru We support the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) that underpins our justice system. Plaid Cymru would challenge any attempt by the UK government to repeal the Human Rights Act, ‡ˆˆ‡…™‹Š†ƒ™‹‰…‹‹œ‡•ˆ‘Š‡ Š‡Šƒ•‘ http://partyof.wales/uploads/Ewrop_2014_/EU_Manifesto_English.pdf

SNP Planning to pull the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights should alarm everyone who cares about these often hard fought for rights and would leave the UK as a pariah in Europe Source: Pete Wishart MP, SNP Home Affairs spokesperson http://www.snp.org/media-centre/news/2014/oct/threats-human-rights-coming-westminster

UKIP UKIP would remove the UK from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. Source: http://www.ukip.org/issues

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