WATCH: Even Ed Davey Turns on ECHR
If anything is a sign that the tide is turning against the ECHR, it’s arch-remainer and LibDem leader Ed Davey proposing the convention be changed. Davey was on Times Radio this morning to say he wouldn’t be opposed to the idea of rewriting the ECHR “collectively.” Classic LibDemese…
“However, if you could do it collectively, working through with the court, with European colleagues to try to make sure that human rights are protected fundamentally but it doesn’t have perverse consequences, yeah, one could look at that, but one should tread very carefully.”
Kemi Badenoch has launched her review into leaving the ECHR, with shadow home secretary Chris Philp yesterday saying the Tories “in principle” want to leave. Co-conspirators will still have to wait a few months until the Tories produce a concrete decision…