Starmer’s close friend Philippe Sands has said that calls the quit the ECHR takes us back to the 1930s. Debating with former Tory Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind – who said he’d changed his mind on and argues to ‘suspend recognition’ of the ECHR’ – Sands said on the Today Programme:

“I think it’s pretty clear what’s happening, Nick. I mean, this is a move that is essentially taking Europe and the world back to the 1930s. We know what that leads to, and it’s a lesson that I think people are going to have to take on board and learn pretty quickly. Britain led the world in 1945 in putting in place a series of rules and the idea that the United Kingdom would now abdicate that role to me is tragic.”

It wasn’t that long ago that Starmer’s other learned friend Attorney General Richa

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