Academics and lawyers on the new protected social rights proposed by Gordon Brown’s Commission on the UK’s Future

The Commission on the UK’s Future chaired by Gordon Brown (Think our plan to fix British politics is a pipe dream? Think again, 6 December) has recommended that there should be new, constitutionally protected social rights. This proposal is the latest in a growing consensus across the political landscape to protect the rights to housing, social security, food and other socioeconomic rights. It comes against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis, increasing child poverty, millions not being able to access adequate housing and woefully underresourced health and education systems.

Every day, the socioeconomic rights of people across the UK are being routinely violated. Yet these rights, which the UK government is obliged to implement under various international treaties, are totally absent from existing domestic legislative arrangements.

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian.