Labour’s shadow justice secretary Steve Reed has labelled the government’s proposed changes to the Human Rights Act as ‘a dead cat distraction’. Speaking to the Commons, Reed said: “It’s a dead cat distraction tactic by a government that doesn’t know how to fix the criminal justice system that they’ve broken and is desperate to divert…
With less than a week to go until the Labour party conference, we’re getting a clear sense of the issues that will be debated. This year, the movement for one important policy change has grown dramatically: the call for Labour to back proportional representation. This week we learnt that at least 144 constituency parties have…
