Tories Lie About Human Rights Act

Shadow Justice Secretary Dominic Grieve should know better:

Dominic Grieve, the shadow justice secretary, claimed that, under Labour, the rights of criminals had been put before the “rights of law-abiding citizens”.

He said the Tories would give the police the power to tell people about prolific criminals living in their area.

“A Conservative government will free the police, probation and prison services to name offenders where necessary in order to protect the public and prevent crime,” he said.

Behaviour like this is  uncharacteristic of Jack Straw’s otherwise thoughtful opposite number. It’s populism gone mad to suggest that they would give police such powers when they already have them, and downright dangerous to perpetuate the lie that human rights legislation benefits offenders more than law-abiding citizens.