It has nothing to do with the EU, a fact many Tories seem to have overlooked
The European Convention on Human Rights has nothing to do with the EU, a fact many Tories seem to have overlookedThe disapplication of the Rwanda law from the North will reassure critics, but prime minister Rishi Sunak is adamant that it will not derail his plans. Photograph: Toby Melville/PA Wire
“I have been consistently clear that the commitments in the Belfast Agreement should be interpreted as they were always intended, and not expanded to cover issues like illegal migration,” he insists, like Boris Johnson, retrospectively reinterpreting the agreement. “We will take all steps to defend that position, including through appeal.
Originalist critics objected to the idea that a 1950 definition of “private and family life” was organic enough to protect same-sex unions. And Sunak spoke of “complete overreach” of the court when in April (Irish and British cases now before the domestic courts will lean on similar arguments to challenge government failures on the issue.
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