Oh sit down before you hurt yourself. UK is violating human rights right now. Its polices towards refugees and migrants destroy lives. It's passing bills to prevent prosecution for war crimes FFS. The UK has no moral authority to boast about its human rights record at present. https://twitter.com/DominicRaab/status/1336974115069173761

Seriously, there is a little more galling on #HumanRightsDay than watching ministers from this government proclaiming that the UK "Led the way on human rights in 2020. Let's just run through some of the highlights of this governments support for human rights shall we?

We have had the government passing, or attempting to pass, bills specifically aimed at violating international law. The one which most people seem focused on is the internal markets bill, because it links to Brexit.

That one alone was condemned by Archbishops for the risks it placed in regards to human rights. Then we have the Overseas Operations Bill, which could potentially see British Service Personnel failing to be prosecuted for war crimes.

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which would see authorities potentially exempt from prosecution for certain crimes. What about suggestions of offshoring asylum seekers, despite Australia already having been found to have breached human rights for exactly that?

Oh yes, how about the PM not even knowing what No Recourse to Public Funds was and how the government not only ripped families of migrants apart during the pandemic, but then left them without any support.

Might be worth bringing up the deaths of migrants from starvation because government failures during a global pandemic left them unable to afford to live. Or don't migrants count as having human rights? You'd be forgiven for thinking that based on @pritipatel's comments alone.

I know, let's have a gander at deportations, which the government has been warned repeatedly not only violate human rights but also increase the risks of modern slavery. OOh, what about the whole refusing to help feed the poorest children in the country fiasco?

But, hey, I could be being unfair. After all @DominicRaab is the Foreign Sec, so maybe it's not on to throw domestic legislation and actions at him. You could look at cutting the Foreign Aid Budget though, for starters.

Maybe that whole exporting arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the minor technicality of their use against civilians in Yemen would give some people cause for concern regarding human rights. I mean this is all just off the top of my head for this year alone, and there's a lot more.

What about, as mentioned by @ZoeJardiniere, how we have helped fund Omar al-Bashir in Sudan under the Khartoum Process? Not to mention, along with the rest of the EU, camps in Libya where refugees are sold into slavery.

We deny children safety. We fund dictators and fuel armed attacks against civilians. We pass laws to evade of prosecution for war crimes. We detain people in inhumane conditions and deny them legal assistance. The UK can't claim to lead on human rights and to do so is bollocks.