Tag: European Convention on Human Rights

Twenty years later, and under a new prime minister, Labour now appears to want to make good on Blair’s promise to ‘change the rules’ as far as human rights are concerned, and to do so for much the same reasons and in much the same way. Continue reading

Every time that threats are made to pull the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), those opposed to such a drastic move remind us that Britain was its first signatory and that Winston Churchill was a strong supporter of the project. Continue reading