No 10 to set out sweeping plans to override power of Europe’s human rights court

Proposal to replace Human Rights Act with bill of rights is effort to make government untouchable', say critics

Downing Street will tomorrow set out sweeping plans to override the power of Europe's human rights court just days after a judge in Strasbourg blocked the deportation of asylum seekers from Britain to Rwanda.

The abolition of the Human Rights Act (HRA), including reducing the influence of the European court of human rights (ECHR), will be introduced before parliament in what the government described as a restatement of Britain's sovereignty.