Now that the tumult and the shouting have died and the captains and the kings have departed (or, at least, gone quiet for three or four years before the next round of electioneering) we are left with a Government whose constant theme during the previous Parliament was dissatisfaction with the European Convention of Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998. It was impossible for the Conservatives to repeal the HRA 1998 in the last Parliament and replace it with what they kept describing as a “British Bill of Rights” because the Liberal Democrats in the coalition would never have agreed to it. But now there is a Conservative Government with an absolute majority, where might we go from here? Continue reading →