British citizens have minimal interaction with human rights law, indicative of a mature democracy. Concerns about fundamental freedoms are prevalent in repressive regimes. Knowledge of the European Convention on Human Rights often arises from controversial asylum policies and criminals avoiding deportation. Political figures oppose the ECHR, citing it as an obstacle to British sovereignty. Labour's new refugee return scheme is seen as more humane. Calls to exit the ECHR are made by politicians, arguing that human rights laws impede democratic choices and border control efforts.
Most British citizens have little contact with human rights law, which is as it should be in a mature democracy. Widespread anxiety about basic freedoms is a feature of more repressive regimes.
Those attacks will continue for as long as asylum, and small-boats traffic on the Channel in particular, are salient political issues for the foreseeable future.
Nigel Farage has said he would get rid of the ECHR as a day-one priority should Reform UK ever form a government.
Kemi Badenoch has commissioned a report to consider how an ECHR exit might be achieved but expressed her personal view that Britain will likely need to leave because human rights are wielded as a sword to attack democratic decisions and common sense.
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