Ed Davey calls for ‘new Magna Carta’ to protect British rights and commitments

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Britain should have a new written constitution to make it “resistant to authoritarian creeps like Donald Trump”, Sir Ed Davey has said.The Liberal Democrat leader called for a “new Magna Carta” to protect the UK’s commitments to human rights, the NHS and freedom of expression from being dismantled, as he made a speech at the party’s spring conference.

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00:00It is a force that threatens to tear our great country apart, and we cannot let it.

00:07So today, I want to call for something bold, something that this moment demands,

00:15and this party is uniquely placed to champion.

00:19A new Magna Carta for modern Britain.

00:23Not a literal rewriting of an 800-year-old document,

00:26but a renewed national commitment enshrined in law to the values that have always made Britain worth defending.

00:43The rule of law, with the courts always independent of political interference.

00:49A commitment to universal human rights that cannot be ripped up at the whim of a populist like Farage.

00:55A democracy that is transparent, accountable, and resistant to the authoritarian creep we see in other countries,

01:05and resistant to the authoritarian creep Donald Trump.

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