Mr Raab is separately dusting off plans he made during his previous stint at the Department of Justice in 2015 with then-Justice Secretary Michael Gove for a new UK Bill of Rights to replace the Human Rights Act. the man of work.

After announcing a “overhaul” of the legislation at the annual Conservative conference earlier this month, he reveals that the government’s approach to roll back some of the consequences of the law will include the introduction of legislation ad hoc to “correct” court rulings that ministers believe are “incorrect”. His concerns include the extent of the reach of the European Court of Human Rights in the UK. The law says that judges must take decisions “into account”.

“I don’t think it’s the job of the European Court in Strasbourg to dictate, whether it’s the NHS, whether it’s our social protection or whether it’s our police force,” Mr Raab said. These public services should be governed by “elected lawmakers” rather than “judicial legislation”. Likewise, he agrees with senior military officials who are concerned about decisions relating to British soldiers fighting overseas.

Mr. Raab also wants “the Supreme Court to have the last word on the interpretation of the laws of the country, not the Court of Strasbourg [the European Court of Human Rights]. As [now we have] left the EU, we don’t want Luxembourg justice [the European Court of Justice] bypass our judges.

Give power back to Parliament

Mr Raab’s human rights reforms, which he says will be the subject of a consultation in the next two months, will focus on restoring power to parliament.

“We want to protect and preserve the prerogatives of Parliament from being eroded by judicial legislation, abroad or even at home,” he said.

Mr Raab’s professional responsibilities as Deputy Prime Minister are still “finalized and formalized”, but will include a role in Boris Johnson’s domestic reform agenda, he said. “If I can help the PM, if I can lighten his load, focus on delivery and bring together … the different cross-functional departments to get things done, so much the better.” He will also remain a member of the Cabinet subcommittee on Brexit strategy and the National Security Council.

As a former Brexit Secretary, Mr Raab could be forgiven for believing that some concessions currently offered by the EU on Northern Ireland could have been useful had they been on the table in the tense negotiations in which he was involved in 2018.

“For those of us who have argued for a long time that there are better ways of doing things, I think this has been demonstrated not only by what we see and what we have supported, but by the fact that ‘there is clearly more flexibility on the EU side. “

Role of the European Court of Justice

Government concerns over the continued role of the European Court of Justice in overseeing the Northern Ireland Protocol have, according to Mr Raab, been exacerbated by the rigidity of the EU’s enforcement of trade rules goods on the island of Ireland.

“We have seen a fairly purist and dogmatic approach from the EU… If they take this approach, of course it increases our nervousness as to what any Luxembourg court ruling would apply.”

Despite reports of a backstage brawl with Liz Truss, his successor at the Foreign Office, over Mr Raab’s apparent desire to retain access to Chevening, the foreign minister’s country residence, the deputy prime minister said the couple had had no direct discussions about the property they will now share.

He insists, “I even spent less than a minute thinking about it.