Human Rights
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Asked to clarify what was and was not being said about the Human Rights Act, the PMOS said that the essential point was that we seemed to have problems in this area which other countries did not, even though they were also signatories of the European Convention and had human rights legislation of the kind that we had in Britain.
Put to him that the Prime Minister seemed to be ruling out legislation, the PMOS said: no. What we were doing was asking the question and waiting to see what the answer was. Therefore, it did seem to be a matter for interpretation, and what was important was that the Home Office found out why it came about. If people looked at John Reid’s point in his letter, it said that Dr. Reid would come back in June with an initial analysis of what the problem was. The PMOS said that we should do the exercise first, and then see where we had got to.
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