Monday 03 October 2011

Home Secretary: scrap the Human Rights Act

Theresa May, the Home Secretary, risks an explosive rift inside the Coalition with an explicit call for the scrapping of the Human Rights Act.

Theresa May

Theresa May would like to scrap the Human Rights Act Photo: PAUL GROVER

By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor

9:27PM BST 01 Oct 2011

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Mrs May uses an interview with The Sunday Telegraph to warn that the Act is hampering the Home Office’s struggle to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects.

“I’d personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it,” she says.

The Home Secretary’s words will be cheered by many Conservative MPs as well as Tory ministers across Whitehall

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