The attorney general has trashed calls from Nigel Farage and some senior Conservatives to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), saying that abandoning it would send “an immensely damaging signal” to Britain’s allies.
Lord Richard Hermer said abandoning the human rights convention would leave Britain “in the company of Russia and Belarus” (Russia was expelled from the ECHR after its invasion of Ukraine, while Belarus has never joined the Council of Europe).
