James Crouch, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, looks at why Rishi Sunak’s remarks about pulling out of the ECHR might cause more problems than it solves.
Good points. An additional consideration: the One Nation group in the Parliamentary Party seems fairly agreed that leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea. However most of these were against leaving the EU and then in favour of a "soft" Brexit and disliked the Rwanda plan. If Sunak presses ahead with a plan to leave the ECHR then there will be a lot of adverse comment. Of course as this lot took the Johnson shilling and then for all the huffing and puffing only one voted FOT the Lords amendments on the Rwanda Bill.
So what we have is a recipe for endless comments in the media on a divided party followed by the usual display of spinelessness by Damian Green and his like thus ensuring a surge in Lib Dem votes in the "blue wall" as decent people decide they cannot trust so called "moderates".
Good points. An additional consideration: the One Nation group in the Parliamentary Party seems fairly agreed that leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea. However most of these were against leaving the EU and then in favour of a "soft" Brexit and disliked the Rwanda plan. If Sunak presses ahead with a plan to leave the ECHR then there will be a lot of adverse comment. Of course as this lot took the Johnson shilling and then for all the huffing and puffing only one voted FOT the Lords amendments on the Rwanda Bill.
So what we have is a recipe for endless comments in the media on a divided party followed by the usual display of spinelessness by Damian Green and his like thus ensuring a surge in Lib Dem votes in the "blue wall" as decent people decide they cannot trust so called "moderates".