Watch the video and then discuss the advice you would offer before comparing your ideas with those suggested.

Suggestions

  • Discussion of issues surrounding scrapping HRA e.g. political parties' views - David Cameron pre 2015 election. Theresa May's position since becoming PM. No clear answer as focus on Brexit at present.
  • ECHR and position before the HRA 1998 – signing of Convention in 1951; right of individual petition 1966; key sections of the HRA, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7; advantages and disadvantages - not entrenched like America’s Bill of Rights.
  • BOR would make rights more ‘British’. Discussion of what that might mean.