Leave ECHR now, Braverman urges as police move to shut down Brussels conference
by Christopher McKeon
Apr 16, 2024
3 minutes
The UK lacks the “political will” to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Suella Braverman told a conference in Brussels as Belgian police moved to shut the event down.
In a speech to the National Conservatism conference on Tuesday, the former home secretary attacked the ECHR as incompatible with parliamentary democracy and the court charged with enforcing it as “profoundly undemocratic and politicised”.
The Conservative MP, a long-time sending a letter giving six months’ notice to the Council of Europe.
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