Andrew Noakes Articles

The Conservatives want to prevent suspected terrorists, criminals, and illegal immigrants from using human rights as a protection against deportation. In the time honoured Tory tradition of insisting that some people are more equal than others, in a stroke they have...

Today the Labour Campaign for Human Rights has launched the Our Human Rights campaign, showing who will lose out if the Tories follow through on their threats to repeal the Human Rights Act and take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights. It shows how human...

Yesterday morning the United Kingdom awoke to news that emergency data surveillance legislation will be rushed through parliament in just a matter of days. Putting aside the substance of what is being proposed for a moment, the speed with which members of parliament...

Sadiq Khan announced this week that Labour will seek to shift power back to British courts after a period of perceived deference to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. He also mounted a vigorous defence of the European Convention on Human Rights and the...