Dear Paul Scully MP

I believe that I have the right to liberty; the right not to be tortured; the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; the right to a fair trial, and the right to be free from slavery.

All of these rights and 11 more were established in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights. The purpose was to prevent any state abusing its citizens following World War II and the atrocities of the Holocaust.

These rights were enshrined in the Human Rights Act 1998.

The Conservative Party manifesto 2015 states: “We will scrap the Human Rights Act and introduce a British bill of rights.”

These rights were set down to protect the citizen from the abuse of the state, a scrapping of the act is the state withdrawing my rights. The Human Rights Act is the British bill of rights.

I ask you to promise to protect my human rights as enshrined in the Human Rights Act.

COUNCILLOR JAYNE MCCOY

Wallington South