European Convention on Human Rights

(asked on 17th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Attorney General, whether the UK will remain a party to the European Convention on Human Rights after the UK leaves the EU.


Answered by
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Geoffrey Cox
This question was answered on 27th January 2020

The UK will remain party to the ECHR after it has left the EU. The UK has strong human rights protections within a comprehensive and well-established constitutional and legal system and the decision to leave the EU does not change this.

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