Starmer’s Friend Philippe Sands Says Calls to Quit ECHR Takes Us ‘Back to 1930s’ – Guido Fawkes

LISTEN: Starmer’s Friend Philippe Sands Says Calls to Quit ECHR Takes Us ‘Back to 1930s’

Starmer’s close friend Philippe Sands has said that calls the quit the ECHR takes us back to the 1930s. Debating with former Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind –  who said he’d changed his mind on and argues to ‘suspend recognition’ of the ECHR –  Sands said on the Today Programme:

“I think it’s pretty clear what’s happening, Nick. I mean, this is a move that is essentially taking Europe and the world back to the 1930s. We know what that leads to, and it’s a lesson that I think people are going to have to take on board and learn pretty quickly. Britain led the world in 1945 in putting in place a series of rules and the idea that the United Kingdom would now abdicate that role to me is tragic.”

It wasn’t that long ago that Starmer’s other learned friend Attorney General Richard Hermer compared calls to leave the court to the Nazis. With friends like these…