Rule of Law (Magna Carta)

Part of Attorney General – in the House of Commons at 9:30 am on 2 July 2015.

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Photo of Jeremy Wright Jeremy Wright The Attorney-General 9:30, 2 July 2015

The hon. Lady will recognise that Magna Carta was far from a perfect expression of human rights. That is why I say that things have moved on in the past 800 years, and we should welcome that. On the European convention on human rights, the Government have been very clear. We have no quarrel with the wording of the convention; our quarrel is with the way in which it has been interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. That is the problem we seek to address.