The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.
Boris Johnson will stop at nothing to deliver his Brexit vision – even if that means forfeiting your human rights
09/03/2020
Rumblings from No 10 and the cabinet want you to believe that the ECHR is being ‘abused’ by European judges. The reality couldn’t be more different.
Fake news handed Brexiteers the referendum – and now they have no idea what they're doing
18/01/2017
'Would we have won without immigration? No. Would we have won without...the NHS? All our research and the close result strongly suggests no. Would we have won by spending our time talking about trade and the single market? No way'
Rightly, a central tenet of British foreign policy has long been to abide – and to expect others to abide – by international law.
Supporters of the European Convention on Human Rights must seize the moment and confront right-wing propaganda demanding the UK leaves it now - or risk a Brexit-style disaster, argues Kevin Maguire.
British repudiation of the European human rights convention could blow a hole in the Belfast Agreement
02/12/2023
We have been here before. Several times. Five consecutive Tory PMs up to Rishi Sunak speculated about, or advocated, repudiating the European Convention (and Court) of Human Rights, which Britain helped draft in 1951, and of which Boris Johnson had previously spoken warmly as “one of the great things we gave to Europe”.