UK Justice Secretary: Bill of Rights Would Give Free Speech a Legal Trump Card

UK Justice Secretary: Bill of Rights Would Give Free Speech a Legal Trump Card
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab opens category C prison HMP Five Wells in Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire, England, on March 3, 2022. Joe Giddens/PA Media
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The UK’s Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said proposals to replace Labour’s Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights would ensure the principle of free speech became a legal “trump card.”

The deputy prime minister said the proposals, which are currently out for consultation, would better protect media freedom and put free speech on a “different status in the pecking order of rights.”