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Evening Standard
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Will Durrant

Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from ECHR are ‘reckless’ – Benn

Reform UK’s efforts to walk away from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) are “wrong” and “reckless”, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said.

Delivering his speech to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, Mr Benn also hailed the new legacy framework agreed by the UK and Irish governments, saying that 200 military families are still “searching for answers”.

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