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Human Rights

Asked to clarify the Prime Minister’s remarks concerning a re-balancing of Human Rights, the PMOS said that this country has been a signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights for 50 years, and that was why we had the Human Rights Act. The Human Rights Act was a very important piece of legislation. However there were problems in this country with issues such as deportation, which other countries who had legislation which reflected the ECHR did not have. On this issue you couldn’t have a partial view. You couldn’t say that the rights of an individual took precedent over the rights of the community. Of course you had to respect the rights of the individual but also had to balance that with the rights of the community. It was a mistake to take a partial view because that ended up with the community at large thinking you were not protecting their interests as a whole and people lost respect for the very thing you want them to have the most respect for. Therefore while obviously we respected people’s views, and we were not distancing ourselves from the principles enshrined in the Human Rights Act, we did have to look at practice. In terms of legislation, that was being studied at present so he wouldn’t get into that.

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