The decline of rights under UK’s Labour: 2024-2026
The decline of rights under UK’s Labour: 2024-2026
Statewatch | Civil Liberties under a Labour government: Repression by a Thousand Cuts
The UK Labour Party came to power in July 2024 promising change and an end to 14 years of the right-wing rule seen under the Conservative Party. Despite the fanfare, evidence suggests the Labour gover...
The UK has had a Labour party government for nearly two years. Despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer promising that change would "begin immediately", under his watch the government has continued, and at times intensified, a crackdown on civil liberties begun by his Conservative predecessors. The result is more surveillance, greater potential for police abuse and the criminalisation of nearly all meaningful forms of protest.