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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s failures are still writ large on the public imagination – the Iraq War for example, or the racking up of astonishing national debt. But what is less well recognised is the last Labour government’s extraordinary success in using seemingly mundane pieces of legislation to profoundly – and, for conservatives, detrimentally – transform the culture of the United Kingdom.
What happened to the UK Bill of Rights? Not the 1689 version, a foundation stone of British liberties along with habeas corpus, trial by jury and limits on the executive power of the state. I mean the long-promised, but never delivered, overhaul of the law to stop insane decisions being taken by our courts to block the deportation of criminals and terrorists.