The current UK Tory government at Westminster gained power with a manifesto promise to get rid of the UK Human Rights Act. The Act is the means by which the European Human Rights Convention (EUHRC) becomes part and parcel of UK law. Getting rid of it doesn’t get rid of the provisions in the EUHMC. It would mean though that any UK citizen with a case to argue or an appeal would have to go to Strassburg to do it. This is Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister in the Scottish Government, explaining the folly of the Tory proposal and why the Scottish Government will stop it by refusing assent to it in Holyrood.
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