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EachOther: On Liz Truss and human rights

Each Other documents that UK Prime Minister Liz Truss promised to expand the UK’s involvement in ‘offshoring‘ refugees and asylum seekers and pledged to increase frontline border staff by 20%.

She has also voted for restricting legal aid and voted in favour of allowing national-security-sensitive evidence to be put before courts in secret sessions and out of the eye of the media.

On privacy rights, Truss voted in favour of the mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities.

The right to privacy is currently enshrined in the HRA, but parliament will vote on plans to replace the act with the Bill of Rights on 12 September.

Records show that under the current government the prime minister has never rebelled against the party majority in a vote.

Source: Liz Truss: The new Prime Minister’s human rights record | EachOther

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