The UK’s Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said proposals to replace Labour’s Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights would ensure the principle of free speech became a legal “trump card.” The deputy prime minister said the proposals, which are currently out for consultation, would better protect media freedom and put free speech on a “different status in the pecking order of rights.” Raab told the Daily Mail he feared “free speech and democratic debate” were being “whittled away” by “wokery and political correctness.” “The thrust is going to be making sure that when we balance rights, whether it’s the right to free speech and the right to privacy or other rights, we make sure that the greatest overriding importance and weight is attached to free speech,” he said. “Effectively, free speech will be given what will amount to ‘trump card’ status in a whole range of areas.” …