Tory MP Suella Braverman has published a new paper with centre-right think tank Prosperity Institute, co-authored with its Senior Researcher on Nationhood, Guy Dampier. Titled “Why and How to Leave the European Convention on Human Rights”, the paper makes the case that leaving the ECHR is “an urgent necessity”. Quicker than LOTO…
Kemi Badenoch has launched a ‘review’ into whether or not we should leave the ECHR membership – not due to report until Conference. Meanwhile, Suella’s report lays out leaving the Strasbourg court will protect veterans, secure borders, end the small boats crisis, defend national security, and return control over policing. Suella being the braver man…
It also proposes solutions for Northern Ireland by amending the Good Friday Agreement, and addresses devolution, the TCA, and Windsor Framework – all with the goal of maintaining the Union. Guy Dampier tells Guido:
“The United Kingdom cannot claim to be truly united with one of its four nations subject to laws created by a foreign court over which we have no democratic control. This report outlines a realistic, technical, and feasible route out of the ECHR, which will allow for the removal of the Irish sea border and restore the sovereignty of the United Kingdom.”
The paper also has the backing of Richard Tice, Lord Frost and Baroness Foster. Better out than in?
Andy Haldane, Burnham’s recent adviser on the economy who has not taken up a No10 job, told Andrew Marr on LBC:
“The market now suspects that this is a traditional tax-and-spend socialist government with better TikTok videos…
imposing windfall taxes on oil & gas or on banks or upping capital gains tax would […] repeat the mistake that Rachel made […] The Achilles heel, the fiscal Achilles heel of this government thus far has been its unwillingness and/or inability to cut public spending.”