UK-Call over scope of Bill of Rights

A potential new Bill of Rights should go further than current human rights laws, parliamentarians said.
The cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said a new Bill should take in new areas of international human rights, and contain a specific guarantee of the right to asylum.
It should also maintain peoples' rights to a "healthy and sustainable environment", the committee added.
But MPs and peers rejected the idea that any rights spelt out in the document could depend on individuals living up to their responsibilities. "We conclude that a Bill of Rights and Freedoms should not include directly enforceable duties," their report said.
Instead, the basic duties of a citizen to have a "civic duty" to their community, the country and future generations could be spelt out in a preamble to the Bill. It also rejected the idea that any new law could be called a "British Bill of Rights" and proposed the name "UK Bill of Rights".

We need to study this piece of proposed legislation every step of the way especially the Conservatives version and input.

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