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Time has moved on and now we have a new Home Secretary who has announced, in effect, that nothing is off the table. I think I might be forgiven for having wondered, when I heard this, how it would go down with the human rights zealot, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hermer, but he too seems to have modified his approach. There may, apparently, be a concerted effort to try to change the terms of the ECHR. This will not be easy, despite the apparent enthusiasm of some other members of the Council of Europe for the taking of such a course. Giving evidence to a parliamentary committee, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hermer, expressed the view that it would take not far short of 10 years to achieve this. I am sorry to inform him that there is a possibility that his party will not then be in power.