May Suggests UK to Leave European Convention on Human Rights

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Theresa May has recently commented that Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights regardless of the EU referendum result and her remarks have drawn sheer criticism from the Liberal side. Shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, immediately described her comments as “so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided” and gave a bitter reply.

According to Lord Falconer, Mrs. May is “sacrificing Britain’s 68-year-old commitment to human rights for her own miserable Tory leadership ambitions”.  According to Mrs. May, “the ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals – and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia’s when it comes to human rights.” May concluded that “so regardless of the EU referendum, my view is this: If we want to reform human rights laws in this country, it isn’t the EU we should leave but the ECHR and the jurisdiction of its court.”

Whereas on the other hand, Falconer responded “that is so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided. Ignorant because you have to be a member of the ECHR to be a member of the EU. The European Union itself agrees to abide by the ECHR.” He continued that its “Illiberal because … there has to be a source external to a government determining what human rights are. And misguided because it will so damage the standing of the UK, a country that above all plays by the rules and that is going around the world saying we should comply as a world with human rights. This is so so appalling.”