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On Human Rights Day, the UK government must reflect on its own inaction and complicity
JEREMY CORBYN warns that on Human Rights Day Britain is trying to jettison its obligations under international treaties and turning its back on the most vulnerable
Have A PLEASANT FLIGHT, SIR! Refugees present Tory delegates with ‘one-way tickets’ to Rwanda during a protest outside the Conservative party annual conference on October 3 2022

TODAY marks International Human Rights Day. How does the British government wish to mark it? 

By waging a campaign to withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights. This campaign has been frothing on the front bench for years, but it really gathered momentum after an interim judgement from the ECHR prevented an unnamed asylum-seeker from being removed to Rwanda.

Those who opposed this interim judgement complained that the asylum seekers were “illegal”. Let me be absolutely clear: there is no such thing as an illegal asylum-seeker. 

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