Good news, Gerry! The Human Rights Act is here to stay

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Another of Gerry Adams’ sticking points for returning to the Assembly seems about to disappear. The on- off on sequence of the May government’s  commitment to a new British Bill of Rights to replace the Human Right Act now looks permanently off the agenda and not just delayed until after 2020, according to  Daily Telegraph sources.  Despite her frustrations with enforcing exclusion orders against militant Islamists, Theresa May has at last bowed to pressure from many sides not to pick unnecessary fights  north of the English border and across the Irish Sea where the Human Rights act was embedded in the GFA. I look forward to Mr Adams giving a warm welcome to the decision.

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