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May’s foot’s in her mouth
Theresa May’s politically opportunistic tirade against the European Convention on Human Rights is standard Tory fare and as such full of false insinuation. - Morning Star, 6 May 2016
Theresa May sought to placate the Tory anti-human rights lobby — and win them away from Brexit — by claiming that Britain could withdraw from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) while remaining in the EU.
She said: “The ECHR can bind the hands of Parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals.”
Charles Falconer, Labour’s shadow justice secretary, called her speech “so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided.” Indeed, neither pro-human rights Tories (Dominic Grieve) nor Tory Brexit campaigners (Michael Gove) agreed with her.
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