Thursday 23 June 2022 10:45 PM Labour peers vow to 'pull Bill of Rights apart' as Lord boasts they will try to ... trends now
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Major reforms to the justice system will be 'pulled apart' in the House of Lords, Labour peers have predicted.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock boasted that the Upper House was 'full of lawyers' who will try to defeat the Bill of Rights introduced by the Government this week.
He claimed the planned law will 'reduce the rights of British citizens' and also embolden dictatorships to ignore human rights law.
Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (pictured) boasted that the Upper House was 'full of lawyers' who will try to defeat the Bill of Rights introduced by the Government this week
The Labour peer's comments came just a day after Lord Chancellor Dominic Raab promised that the Bill would restore a 'healthy dose of common sense' to the justice system.
Under the proposals, UK
