The only way the United Kingdom can quit the ECHR is by breaching or re-negotiating the Good Friday Agreement.
And Ireland and the nationalist community in the north of Ireland are not going to re-negotiate the GFA so as to remove fundamental rights.
No way round this for Jenrick and the Tories.
And Ireland and the nationalist community in the north of Ireland are not going to re-negotiate the GFA so as to remove fundamental rights.
No way round this for Jenrick and the Tories.
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And I have learned to smile sweetly about it because I know exactly who has the power to dictate what happens next if the UK breaches the GFA. And I can say so. 😇
And that is why there was no repeal after 2010, despite parliamentary majorities and manifesto commitments.
But, in essence, it is why the Human Rights Act was not repealed after 2010, despite Tory manifesto commitments and parliamentary majorities.
That contingent is now firmly in the ascendant in both the Tories and of course Reform.
(which a unilateral breach would likely promote anyway)
Tell us what happens if Jenrick chooses to breach.
Unfortunately, should Jenrick get in, it destabilises UK polity, and thus makes any kind of medium- to long-term rapprochement with the EU more difficult.
This is just a game to Jenrick the Corrupt. But it’s a very dangerous game to destabilise NI.