Should the UK leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The UK has been a signatory to the ECHR since 1951 and incorporated its rights into domestic law via the Human Rights Act 1998. The convention underpins aspects of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU, the Good Friday Agreement, and several bilateral security arrangements. In 2026 the Labour government remains committed to membership while pursuing limited reforms on migration cases, while the Conservatives and Reform UK advocate withdrawal to ease deportations of failed asylum seekers and foreign criminals.
3 Opinions
The reason we have the small boats is nothing to do with the ECHR, it's due to government incompetence. It's an easy excuse for a government to throw our human rights down the drain to focus on immigrant scapegoats. I support withdrawing from the ECHR only in the case that we establish a British Bill of Human Rights that entrenches a higher standard of rights for all Brits
If it is excuse for UK government not to follow people's order then yes. But I believe this is only excuse, they will find another, and the next one when required. They simply do not believe in borders and believe all people are the same. Globalists.
Walk away, and you wreck Northern Irish peace, lose access to European extradition pacts, and blind our police to foreign criminal records. Stripping basic human rights from every British citizen just because Whitehall can't manage basic deportation casework just seems like pure institutional vandalism to me.