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The UK's anti-legal populism: UK withdrawal from the ECHR considered through the lens of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Published: 17 June 2022

The first flight under the UK's controversial plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was scheduled to take place on 14 June but was halted at the last hour by an interim measure by the European Court of Human Rights. This predictably prompted calls for UK withdrawal from the ECHR, and various members of the UK Government, including the Prime Minister, Home Secretary and Attorney General all indicated, directly or indirectly, that this is on the table.

In a blog for Verfassungsblog, published on 17 June, Professor Emily Reid examines the implications of this through the lens of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Read this blog here

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