If anything is a sign that the tide is turning against the ECHR, it’s arch-remainer and LibDem leader Ed Davey proposing the convention be changed. Davey was on Times Radio this morning to say he wouldn’t be opposed to the idea of rewriting the ECHR “collectively.” Classic LibDemese…
“However, if you could do it collectively, working through with the court, with European colleagues to try to make sure that human rights are protected fundamentally but it doesn’t have perverse consequences, yeah, one could look at that, but one should tread very carefully.”
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”