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Bill of rights bill to be shelved
The government is shelving the bill of rights bill, my colleague Jesssica Elgot reports. Whitehall sources say it needs a comprehensive rewrite.
This was the legislation drafted by Dominic Raab that was intended to give British courts more leeway to diverge from European court of human rights rulings.
Whitehall source says government is pulling second reading of the bill of rights – describes it as a “total…
