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- What is the ECHR and why would we leave?
- It's 1/20 that there's a referendum to leave the ECHR before 2025
What is the ECHR and why would we leave?
The ECHR or the European Convention on Human Rights was drafted after the Second World War and Holocaust to protect the people from the state.
The UK played a massive part in the birth of the ECHR with Winston Churchill a key player in the making of it.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) grounded the first planned flight of refugees to Rwanda which made some politicians raising the possibility of the UK leaving the ECHR.
If the UK was to try and leave, it would surely have to be through a Referendum but bookies make it 1/20 that we DON'T see one before 2025 around leaving the ECHR.
It's 1/20 that there's a referendum to leave the ECHR before 2025
As we said previously, it's 1/20 with bookies that there's a referendum to leave the ECHR before 2025 with Smarkets odds suggesting it won't happen any time soon.
Leaving the ECHR would put people's rights at risk by making the UK Government be able to have the power to do whatever it wants to individuals rights with no consequences.
The Human Rights Act was passed in 1988 and meant that human rights cases can be heard in domestic courts rather than having to go to the ECtHR.
