How things change. Five years ago few electors cared about the UK’s membership of the ECHR. Today that same convention, with its baneful effect on our ability to police our borders and keep out undesirables, is fast taking centre stage and becoming Concern Number One with burgeoning numbers of voters: voters who, as the government knows to its consternation, increasingly doubt Labour’s ability or even willingness to do much about it.

You can have ECHR membership plus loyal adherence to its requirements, or alternatively you can have a proper border policy. You can’t have both

No doubt this is why the Attorney-General Lord Hermer, undoubtedly with the backing of the PM, weighed in this week. He announced that while the government remained committed to remaining a member of the ECHR and lo

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