If the three Labour leadership candidates have little to say on EU membership, they are even more silent on the government’s wish to scrap the Human Rights Act (HRA). The most strident Labour opposition has come from Lord Falconer, the new shadow lord chancellor and an architect of the original bill, passed in 2008, who makes a jurist’s case on why the Lords will reject the reject any substitute legislation that strikes at constitutional rights. Correct as he is, that argument will sway no voters.