Luke Gittos explains how the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) shapes UK migration policy – from Rule 39 injunctions to the way Strasbourg interprets Article 3 – and why that leaves ministers with little room to act. In the first minute he sets out the case; then we cover what leaving or reforming the ECHR would mean in practice.
Britain’s democracy is being lawyered to death. Every vote, policy and border decision now stands trial in Strasbourg. When politics becomes litigation, the people become irrelevant.
In this blistering talk Luke Gittos writer, lawyer and one of Britain’s sharpest critics of legal overreach. Dissects how the European Court of Human Rights has quietly eroded democratic control in the UK.
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