Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain
The next litmus test of Tory purity
In an ideal world, bad ideas would fade into irrelevance. In Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, they have a good chance of becoming official policy. Divorce the country’s largest trading partner? Sure. Send asylum-seekers to Africa? Let’s do it. Now there is momentum behind another scheme: leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Brechrit?”
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