Send asylum-seekers to Africa? Let’s do it. Now there is momentum behind another scheme: leaving the European Convention on Human…
Ministers are braced for legal challenges to the Rwanda plan and the judiciary has made 25 courtrooms available to deal…
“A clear majority of people in Wales want the UK to remain part of the European Convention on Human Rights,…
George Osborne suggested the nuclear option of withdrawing from the international treaty would be too ‘extreme’ for Lord Cameron. Read…
“The poll also found pledging to leave the ECHR at the next election, expected in 2024, could lose the Conservatives twice…
“The UK needs to be seen as a reliable upholder of international standards, rather than as a rogue state.” https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/08/conservatives-leaving-echr-argument
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Our verdict. The ECHR is an entirely separate institution to the EU which the UK left as a result of…