UK Secretary vows to end Human Rights Act

Grayling said Conservatives will use their majority to trump their junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, who are pushing to keep the legislation.

“I cannot conceive of a situation where we could put forward a serious reform without scrapping Labour’s Human Rights Act and starting again,” Grayling told The Sunday Telegraph.

“We need a dramatically curtailed role for the European Court of Human Rights in the UK,” he added.

His comments are expected to fuel Lib Dems’ outrage over the issue while any step to abolish the European-backed legislation will lead to a major constitutional dispute with the EU.

British Home Secretary Theresa May has been so far the staunchest supporter of replacing the European-backed law with domestic human rights legislation but Lib Dems and campaigners say such a measure will have dire human rights consequences especially for immigrants in Britain.

(2013-03-03/presstv)