Member

Perhaps noble Lords will forgive me for a moment’s personal reflection on this topic. A few years ago I was debating, at the Cambridge Union, the future of human rights in this country and I dared to suggest that we might have to look again at the ECHR. The Labour Peer on the opposite side of the debate told the students that this sort of argument was last heard in 1930s Germany. I tried not to take offence, but I suppose it should be a matter of some modest satisfaction that what was once characterised as a neo-Nazi approach is now to be, or might be, Labour Party policy.