Shami Chakrabarti tells Owen Jones that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, among others, tried to woo her politically during her tenure as the director of Liberty, the role she recently left after more than a decade at the helm. Chakrabarti also condemns David Cameron’s use of ‘dehumanising’ language during the refugee crisis in Europe and discusses the importance of the Human Rights Act with the Guardian columnist



An extended version of this interview is available on Owen Jones’s YouTube channel