We’ve joined 20 rights groups to tell MPs to scrap the Coronavirus Act.
If the Speaker can’t allow votes on amendments; if MPs can’t repeal powers responsible for 100% unlawful prosecutions, the Act is without doubt a long-term danger to rights & democracy.
It must go.
Media coverage
The Independent — Coronavirus: Emergency powers law ‘lasting threat to human rights’, charities warn
Daily Express — Boris Johnson CRISIS: PM faces huge Commons defeat as Tories rebel on coronavirus