HIBBOLETHS THESE DAYS come in all shapes and sizes. Since the UK signed the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 1950, few have dared question the need to maintain our allegiance to it. It is nevertheless time that we left it.
There is scope for much misunderstanding here, so a bit of background helps. Under the Convention (which being separate from the EU is completely unaffected by Brexit), the UK undertook as a matter of international law to safeguard assorted rights: the rights to life, to be protected from torture, to independent courts, to private and family life, to freedom of religion and speech, and so on.
Since 1966, the UK has accepted the right of individuals alleging infringement to complain direct to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg; since 1998 the Human Rights Act has incorporated the ECHR into domestic law so that British
