I am sure that your readers will have seen the recent commitment from our local MP, Chris Grayling, to get rid of the protection we currently have against the government.

The proposals coming from Mr Grayling’s party can simply be summarised as ‘some rights, for some people, some of the time’.

I hope that your readers realise that this alarmingly leaves huge swathes of Epsom and Ewell unprotected unless Mr Grayling and his pals decide that they deserve to be defended (best smile extra nicely if you see him in Epsom high street).

It sounds absurd but the policy document that sets out these plans is just that, absurd.

If any of your readers have children, are elderly, female or gay, then they should know that at some point in their lives the Human Rights Act has defended them.

It is a careful model that builds effective human rights protection into the UK system without upsetting existing British constitutional traditions.

Rather than playing around with something so fundamentally important to our everyday lives, I would personally prefer our local MP to concentrate on the important issues facing our constituency.

I read somewhere that Mr Grayling was a member of Amnesty International when he was at university.

I too was a member of Amnesty International and was taught that one of the core aims of human rights is basic respect for everyone.

I really hope that he has not forgotten that message nor his constituents in pursuit of a better political career.

Alex Cisneros

Labour councillor candidate for Woodcote ward, Epsom and Ewell