Curtailing the Convention

Andrew Lane is concerned that the recent Conservative promise will undermine human rights abroad

by Andrew Lane 10th October 2014

The UK helped to negotiate the European Convention on Human Rights and was a pioneering signatory in 1950. But now, over sixty years later, the Conservatives have promised to curtail the Convention or leave it altogether. This would damage the protection of human rights at home and may already be undermining the rule of law abroad.