Why Britain’s membership of the ECHR has become a political issue

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2024-04-25    

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This is a history many Conservatives would like to forget. Facing an election drubbing and threatened on their right flank by Reform UK, a party that is polling well, some Tories are coalescing around the idea of abandoning the convention. Two potential leadership candidates, Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick, have called for Britain to leave. Liz Truss, a former prime minister, has done the same. Rishi Sunak, her successor, has suggested he is prepared to countenance leaving. The grassroots of the party are in favour of quitting. Why has the ECHR become such a bugbear? And are there grounds to leave?

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