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Tory right-wingers, increasingly detached from the historic position of the Conservatives as defenders of institutions and the rule of law, clammer for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. And in lobbying for us to leave, they are driven by their fury that some ECHR rulings make the implementation of their Rwanda scheme-a gimmick by any other name which will not stop the boats-more difficult. Are they right in wanting us to leave the ECHR? In my view and indeed the view of most Tory MPs and Ministers emphatically not. And a clear majority of the public does not want us to l…

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