General Article Prisoner's rights: Westminster clashes with Strasbourg

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By John Humphrys

Who should decide what rights we should have? And what should those rights be? Those are the two stark questions that divided opinion this week when the House of Commons clashed with the European Court of Human Rights over the answers. The British Government has been left with a...

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