It’s a big day for Chris Grayling: the long awaited Commission on a British Bill of Rights reports today. But the Justice Secretary is already setting himself up for disappointment, with reports swirling in the press that the Commission has failed to reach a strong conclusion.
In any case, as Grayling acknowledges in his op-ed in the Telegraph today, there isn’t much he can do about reforming the rights landscape in this country while the Tories remain in Coalition with the Lib Dems. Grayling says he will ‘read and digest the report of the Commission, and will see what help it gives me to deliver change in the short term’. But he adds that he will ‘also be looking clearly towards the next election, and starting work on ensuring that we had a real plan for change then as well’.
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