article_snippet: Human rights laws will be ‘ripped up’ to ensure those who fight for their country can no longer be hounded in the courts, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said.
article_snippet: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon promised to end ‘abuse’ of the Human Rights Act by law firms and so-called victims, who Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said were lodging claims on an ‘industrial scale’.
article_snippet: The Tories will confirm The Tories commitment to diminish the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights in The Tories manifesto.
article_snippet: As part of this, the Human Rights Act will be scrapped and soldiers will be subject to a new British Bill of Rights which will reflect the pressures soldiers face in combat.
article_snippet: Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: ‘This abuse has got to stop and the next Tory government will limit the reach of human rights cases to UK so our forces overseas are not subject to persistent human rights claims.
article_snippet: I made it clear last year that I want to rip up Labour’s Human Rights Act and that Labour’s Human Rights Act is only the Conservatives who will make real changes to the human rights framework to restore some common sense.
highlights_snippet: Will diminish UK's membership of European Convention of Human Rights .
  
highlights_snippet: Soldiers will be subjected to British Bill of Rights that will better reflect combat pressures .
  