Submitted by Sara S E Forster on Wednesday 8th November 2023
Published on Thursday 23rd November 2023
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 23rd May 2024
Current Signatures: 1,180
(count is updated approximately hourly)
Relevant Departments
Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights
We want the Government to take the UK out of the jurisdiction of the ECHR so that protection of human rights is solely a matter for our independent courts, using laws already on the statute books, such as the Human Rights Act and Equality Act.
We believe the Brexit referendum made it clear that the British people do not want unelected judges in Strasbourg to impose judgments and rulings that have no democratic mandate. As seen with Rwanda, we believe the ECHR continues to undermine parliamentary sovereignty and our democratic processes. We believe leaving the ECHR is the only option left if we are to properly re-assert the sovereignty of UK institutions.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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