The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes

The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes

Calls for withdrawal and kneejerk defences of the status quo each risk oversimplifying the UK’s developing political debate about the European Convention on Human Rights. The implications of each position must at least be properly understood if the debate is to be a meaningful one. As the UK’s Labour government increasingly pursues an agenda apparently designed to address the electoral threat it perceives from the political right, human rights, …