AS THE GOVERNMENT makes noises about leaving the European Convention on Human Rights for the umptieth time, defenders of the Strasbourg regime have added an effective new argument to their rhetorical arsenal. The UK should not leave the ECHR, they say, because the ECHR was a British creation, and even a Tory one.
Leaving the ECHR would be rejecting the sacred legacy of Winston Churchill, and surely no self-respecting Conservative could engage in what amounts to right-wing cancel culture.
It is a line that has been adopted, columnists, and EachOther, a charity that aims “to put the human into human rights” through storytelling, and the brainchild of the author of a recent book about Covid-19 lockdowns which was reviewed in these pages.
