I spoke at Stormont this week at the launch of the annual report of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
My theme was the need to look at the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights not just through a domestic lens, but in the international context of creeping illiberalism and authoritarianism. Calls for withdrawal are misplaced: but some concerns are real, and Council of Europe member states are fully entitled to guide the interpretation of the Convention by the process that is beginning this week in Strasbourg.
A slightly updated version of my address is here: The ECHR – News from London and Strasbourg.
