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11 December 2009 / Roger Smith
Issue: 7397 / Categories: Opinion , Human rights
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Manifestos for justice

David Cameron made a fool of himself in his ill-fated attack on “elf and safety”. He got caught out citing as true a “myth” identified on the health and safety executive’s own website. Senior Tories are rallying to his aid to bolster his somewhat similar attack on the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

David Cameron made a fool of himself in his ill-fated attack on “elf and safety”. He got caught out citing as true a “myth” identified on the health and safety executive’s own website. Senior Tories are rallying to his aid to bolster his somewhat similar attack on the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998).

Mr Cameron provided a hostage to fortune by peddling as true similar myths about the HRA 1998—famously including the fiction that the police provided Kentucky Fried Chicken for a fugitive because of his human right to eat. He now has to give more detail about what he wants to do.

One-time Tory heavyweights Michael Howard and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have been in action to support their

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