Why and How to Leave the European Convention on Human Rights    

There is growing agreement on the need to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Created with good intentions, it has expanded the scope of its jurisdiction and made its judgements binding. This has led to a diminishment in sovereignty, as foreign judges have used it to overrule and constrain Parliament.

Combined with the Human Rights Act 1998, which put the rights of the Convention into British law, it has created a perfect storm of human rights law. The result has been the small boats crisis, the disaster that is our asylum system, and the persecution of British veterans. All attempts at reform have failed.

This paper not only lays out a clear route to leaving the ECHR and dealing with related law, but for the first time it also shows how to do so without abandoning Northern Ireland to remaining in the ECHR. Although there is reference to the ECHR in the Belfast Agreement, there is nothing to stop that being amended. This will allow for the restoration of equality across the Union, and free Parliament of the shackles that have kept us from prosperity.