Everything you need to know about the Tories' Human Rights Act attack - Politics.co.uk

"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem"- Albert Einstein. View this email in your browser Rights and wrongs One of the effects of the Tories' surprise majority is that the party now have to attempt to implement all of the policies which they had previously assumed would be bartered away during coalition negotiations with the Liberal Democrats. Their promise to scrap the Human Rights Act was top of the list of wild promises most likely to be binned by the coalition. Now they're going to actually have to go through with it.  Quite aside from the rights and wrongs of the policy, the huge number of hurdles which need to be jumped in order to bin the HRA, plus the possibility of a significant rebellion within his own party, mean this is one policy which looks almost impossible to fulfill.  Latest Articles     Everything you need to know about the Tories' Human Rights Act attack in five minutes   On May 19, 2015 08:36 am One of Britain's most confusing legal debates, distilled into five painless minutes. Read more... »       Labour's choice is only between differing shades of Blairite   On May 18, 2015 11:07 am The great left-right battle for the party is already over. The left have lost. Read more... »   'Never face a migrant in your household': The website which shows how low our debate on immigration has sunk   On May 17, 2015 12:23 pm Websites advising landlords on how to avoid having 'migrants' in their property show how toxic our debate on immigration has become. Read more... »   Opinion Formers press releases     Threats on coasting schools a smokescreen for continuing structural change Chris Keates: 'We all aspire to ensure that all children and young people wherever they go to school have the highest standards of education'. Read more... »   Public back new runway by three to one – new survey Poll reveals strong public support for additional London runway. Read more... »     Facebook Twitter Website Copyright © 2015 Politics.co.uk (Adfero Media Ltd), All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at www.politics.co.uk Our mailing address is: Politics.co.uk (Adfero Media Ltd) 501 Metropolitan Wharf Building 70 Wapping Wall London, E1W 3SS United Kingdom Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences