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But India remains among the three dozen countries - along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia - where the law remains on the statute books.

The campaigns have also experienced many highs and lows – getting close to the statute books, and then being de-prioritised, in what must have felt like a legislative edition of snakes and ladders.

The Conservatives promise to "build" on the Brexit deal they negotiated and keep removing EU laws from the UK statute book.

Amnesty also highlighted figures for the US, the only Western developed country where capital punishment is still on the statute book.

Also expected to make the statute book is a bill overhauling property law in England and Wales, giving more rights to people who own leasehold properties, where the building’s freehold is owned by someone else.