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\u201cThe UK Supreme Court should be the Supreme Court, it isn\u2019t supreme if the ECHR can overrule it.\u201d<\/p>\n
First announced in April 2022, the policy would see illegal migrants and asylum seekers sent to Rwanda. The first plane flight was due to leave in June of last year but was blocked by the ECHR.<\/p>\n
It was reportedly the work of one judge and forced the Government to prove the policy\u2019s legality in court.<\/p>\n
Mr Fabricant said the UK\u2019s future lies outside the ECHR but that the Government should continue to help fund the court the UK helped set up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe helped set up the ECHR, as did the United States, but the United States said \u2018we don\u2019t need a court in Strasbourg to teach us to be decent human beings\u2019.<\/p>\n
DON’T MISS <\/strong> We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I say we don\u2019t need to have lessons from French and Germans who did some pretty awful things in World War Two. Yes, the French too.<\/p>\n \u201cThis country can be proud of its human rights record. We should support the ECHR and help fund them.<\/p>\n \u201cBut to be told by the ECHR that our Supreme Court is wrong? That is not what it was set up for.\u201d<\/p>\n A similar sentiment was expressed by Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a speech in Washington last week.<\/p>\n She said: \u201cI reject that notion that a country cannot be expected to respect human rights if it is not signed up to an international human rights organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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