NEWS · 07 October 2025
The architects of Brexit have found a new cause to rally around: pulling the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The little-noticed Tory conference just committed to the policy of leaving the ECHR, as part of their effort to save Kemi Badenoch's leadership from its inevitable end.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK has long been pushing to leave. And last week Starmer's Labour, while it still supports the ECHR, unfortunately conceded ground to the attacks by promising spurious 'reforms' of how the courts interpret the treaty.
So we should say clearly: This is the latest fake 'cure-all' from the people who used anti-immigration rhetoric to push through Brexit.
They now claim that the key to getting immigration down, for real this time, is to attack our human rights... all because a handful of people per year take migration appeals to the European court.
This strange obsession, born of a fear of all things European, would barely affect migration in reality – but it would put all of our human rights at risk. It would also undermine the foundations of peace in Northern Ireland, and probably cause a further deterioration in the UK's Brexit deal.
At a time when the British economy is on the skids and far-right racism is rising, we need to defend migrants and refugees, not pander to another pack of lies.
It might seem like pro-Europeans are shouting into the void – but while politicians are busy pandering to xenophobes, the public know more about the real causes of the UK's economic problems than they get credit for. In a recent survey, 69% of Labour voters said that Brexit is "the main reason behind the country’s problems".
So, let's reject the lies about the ECHR – and all of the false solutions being pushed by Farage's party and pandered to by other parties.
Meeting Reform halfway isn't the way to stop them. It's up to us all to expose them as the same charlatans who brought us the disaster that is Brexit.
