Raab says UK bill of rights will stop free speech being ‘whittled away by wokery’

Deputy PM says proposals to replace the Human Rights Act will enable principle of free speech to be a legal trump card'

Dominic Raab has disclosed proposals to replace Labour's Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights which he believes will enable the principle of free speech to become a legal trump card".

Raab, the deputy prime minister and justice secretary, has argued that the plan will better protect the press in exposing wrongdoing and said he feared free speech was being whittled away" by wokery and political correctness".