The Joint Committee for Human Rights published their long awaited report into a Bill of Rights for Britain this month, proposing that a Bill of Rights could be beneficial in protecting individuals from the State, and also being the glue that could unite a divided society.

The group of peers and MPs charged with overseeing human rights in the UK indicated their aspirations that any such Bill of Rights would go beyond existing rights, embracing new social and economic rights.

Further, the JCHR rejected any contingent notion of rights – that responsibilities must be met before once could claim a right – but did accept that citizens have moral duties to one another.