Home Office: 'No immediate plans to withdraw' from ECHR
Following report in the Mail on Sunday that Britain is set to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights in a move to be announced by the Home Secretary Theresa May, a home office spokesman said
The government has no immediate plans to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Meanwhile, the Justice Secretary Chris Grayling was quoted in The Sunday Telegraph as saying that said a Conservative majority would repeal the Human Rights Act.
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