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25/01/2012
PM To Call For European Court Reform
David Cameron is to call for the reform of the European Court of Human Rights during a speech in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
In a pre-released copy of the Prime Minister's speech, Mr Cameron is expected to tell the court not to "undermine its own reputation by going over national decisions where it does not need to".
Speaking ahead of the Prime Minister’s speech, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan said: “Our Prime Minister seems more concerned with placating his restless backbenchers than he is about protecting and promoting human rights across Europe.
“The UK should be justly proud of the European Convention on Human Rights – after all, human rights are one of our finest post war exports. Forty-seven nations – some 800 million people – have signed up to a convention written by British lawyers and British politicians. It has helped deliver six decades relatively free of the painful abuses of human rights witnessed in the middle part of the last century.
Mr Khan accused David Cameron of "peddling myths" that "denigrate the human rights successes" of the Court and the Convention.
"It smacks of throwing ‘red meat’ to the hungry pack of Conservative backbenches so recently emboldened by the Prime Minister’s waltzing away from the European negotiating table."
(DW)
In a pre-released copy of the Prime Minister's speech, Mr Cameron is expected to tell the court not to "undermine its own reputation by going over national decisions where it does not need to".
Speaking ahead of the Prime Minister’s speech, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan said: “Our Prime Minister seems more concerned with placating his restless backbenchers than he is about protecting and promoting human rights across Europe.
“The UK should be justly proud of the European Convention on Human Rights – after all, human rights are one of our finest post war exports. Forty-seven nations – some 800 million people – have signed up to a convention written by British lawyers and British politicians. It has helped deliver six decades relatively free of the painful abuses of human rights witnessed in the middle part of the last century.
Mr Khan accused David Cameron of "peddling myths" that "denigrate the human rights successes" of the Court and the Convention.
"It smacks of throwing ‘red meat’ to the hungry pack of Conservative backbenches so recently emboldened by the Prime Minister’s waltzing away from the European negotiating table."
(DW)
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