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Britain’s government will lay out plans on 3 October to downgrade the European Court of Human Rights to an “advisory body”, a move that would “end its meddling in our affairs”, writes Daily Express.
Strasbourg judges “will be stripped of their powers to interfere in Britain” after the Tory government introduces a new Bill of Rights and Responsibilities that will change the application of human rights law. The conservative tabloid notes that according to the proposal —
If the judges reject the move, Britain would quit the European Convention on Human Rights and, as a result, the country will no longer fall within the court’s jurisdiction. […] It is certain to trigger an angry row with the Lib Dems, Labour and human rights campaigners. But the move was widely welcomed [...] by Tory MPs who say voters are fed up with unelected foreign judges siding with illegal migrants, terror suspects and criminals.
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