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Ben Ward
@Benjamin_P_Ward
I work on Europe for Human Rights Watch (he/him) You can also find me on Bluesky: @bpward.bsky.social
Mar 1, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Given importance if security cooperation to UK-EU relations this story only makes sense if UK government is actively planning to leave the European Convention on Human Rights [THREAD] As story notes, the Prime Ministers’s de facto chief of staff is hostile to the European Convention and wants UK to leave it, and several senior members of the cabinet are hostile to the Human Rights Act, which incorporates Convention into domestic law
Feb 14, 2020 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
A senior appointment by the UK government yesterday provides fresh evidence that it has the courts and human rights in its sights [THREAD] The new Attorney General (the government’s top legal adviser) is on record recently arguing that the courts’ ability to hold executive to account should be restrained and expressing criticism of human rights. conservativehome.com/platform/2020/…