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ELI5: Why does the UK Government want to abolish the Human Rights Act?

The newly formed UK Government wants to scrap the Human Rights Act and replace it with the British Bill of Rights. What is the difference between these two and what is there in the Human Rights Act that they're paticularily keen to get rid of?

Thanks!
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One reason is because in the old bill the highest human rights court is the European Court of Human Rights, which means that the British Supreme Court has to take the European Court's judgement into consideration, and if the European Court thinks a judgement or law is wrong it can fine the UK.

They want to change so that UK courts don't have to listen to the European Court's judgements and that the ECHR can't fine the UK for laws it thinks break human rights.

This comes from many high-profile cases where the UK government hasn't been able to deport foreign nationals who've committed crimes and served prison sentences because they either have family in the UK or would face torture in their home country, and also where the ECHR ruled that the UK must allow at least some prisoners (eg. people in prison for minor offences) the right to vote.

(Edited as Lord_twisted suggested to make the exact power relationship between the UK Court and European Court clearer.)