Labour grandee Straw: UK doesn't need ECHR

By Christian Calgie

He urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to distance the UK from the foreign court.
Mr Straw argued that the success of the Human Rights Act, which already incorporates European Convention of Human Rights law, offered the Prime Minister “a way through”.
Criticised
In a letter to The Times, he wrote: “The fundamental problem with the Strasbourg court is that there is no democratic override to its decisions, as there is for any decision of a British court, and many of its judgments are of a lower quality than those of our senior courts...The question that must now arise is: what utility is there in the UK being bound any more into the Strasbourg court? Not much, is my answer.”
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