UK PM eager to scrap Human Rights Act

British Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that he wants to abolish the Human Rights Act immediately, but his deputy Nick Clegg does not approve.

After Home Secretary Theresa May announced her willingness to scrap the Act, which was passed by the Labour Party in 1998, Cameron spoke out complaining about Liberal Democrat coalition partners’ setbacks to the decision, saying they make him go “slowly.”

“Would I like to go further and faster? Yes, I have said so,” said Cameron as he responded to a question asking what he would do regarding the Human Rights Act if he were governing by himself.

Cameron’s comments infuriated the Tory MPs who are already frustrated at their Liberal Democrat partners’ hampering the implementation of their policies.

Clegg categorically announced at the Liberal Democrat party conference that his party would not allow any changes in the Act saying, “Let me say something really clear about the Human Rights Act. In fact I’ll do it in words of one syllable: It is here to stay.”

Moreover, Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary Chris Huhne warned against any efforts by the conservatives to scrap the Human Rights Act.

“If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in Coalition,” said Huhne.

Cameron attacked the Human Rights Act, which integrates the European Convention on Human Rights into British law, after the unprecedented unrest in August afflicted the country. He described human rights issues as “phoney” and has called for the abolition of the Act since then.