Council’s commissioner for human rights says replacing act with British bill of rights would send ‘wrong signal’

A senior Council of Europe official has warned the UK government against weakening protections for its citizens by repealing the Human Rights Act.

Dunja Mijatović, the council’s commissioner for human rights, said on Monday that replacing the act with a British bill of rights would send the “wrong signal”.

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