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<p>The UK has a longstanding tradition of ensuring our rights and liberties are protected
domestically and of fulfilling our international human rights obligations. The Charter
of Fundamental Rights (the Charter) only applies to Member States when acting within
the scope of EU law. The Charter did not create any new rights. Instead it was intended
to catalogue the rights that already existed in EU law, and the bill sets out how
this underlying law is being converted into UK law at the point we exit the EU. Therefore
it is no longer appropriate, nor will it make sense in the context of the UK's exit
from the EU, to retain the Charter in UK law.</p>
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