UK MUST abide by European Court of Human Rights even AFTER Brexit fumes Abbott
DIANE ABBOTT insisted the UK must adhere to the European Court of Human Rights after Brexit during a live interview.
Diane Abbott: We should abide by EU Human Rights laws
The Shadow Home Secretary said the ECHR was a “tenor” of the sort of “socialism I believe in” and its power in the UK should not be lost after Brexit.
Speaking on The Andrew Marr Show, on the BBC, Ms Abbott said “abiding” by the court was vital whether Britain was “in the European Union or not”.
Discussing whether prisoners should get the vote in the UK, she said: “The European Court of Human Rights has been saying for some years that we can’t stop all prisoners having the vote.
“The Labour party believes that we should indeed, in the end, we have to support the position of the European Court of Human Rights.
Diane Abbott said the UK should adhere to the ECHR after Brexit
In the end, we have to support the position of the European Court of Human Rights
“It’s not whether they should have the vote, it’s whether we should abide by the European Court of Human Rights.
“I think abiding by the European Court of Human Rights, whether we’re in the EU or not, but abiding by those human rights issues is very much a tenor of the type of socialism I believe in.”
The ineffectiveness of the ECHR was exposed last month after it was revealed it had failed to implement nearly 10,000 rulings.
National governments of the 47 members of the Council of Europe have ignored the rulings of 9,944 judgements with some cases stretching back to 1992, according to the Council’s database.
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Cases ruled as a violation of human rights include segregating HIV-positive prisoners in Greece, police brutality in Bulgaria, to failing to properly investigating deaths of prisoners in Romania.
A senior Conservative told Theresa May earlier this year that the UK needed to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights soon or risk facing problems post-Brexit.
Lord Edward Faulks, who was justice minister until last year, claimed Mrs May had a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to go for the “full fat” hard-Brexit option and create a British Bill of Rights.