The European convention on human rights is not an EU thing, so brexit doesn’t mean dumping it automatically.
Our government does want out of echr because it says we have a right to privacy of communications, meaning blanket surveillance is illegal, and it says torture is bad, so we can’t send nasty people back home if home is a nasty state that might torture them
Also, bear in mind whose idea the convention was: https://youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA
Never spoke of the ECHR. In fact there are several other treaties, many of them related to the EU, protecting human/civil rights of citizens of EU member states. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union is one example (guess who got an opt-out).
May apparently doesn’t want out of the ECHR, now she wants to be PM (so, a complete 180 from two months ago).
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