Shabana Mahmood calls for ECHR reform, saying it has ‘endured because it has evolved’ and must do so again – UK politics live

Justice secretary urges overhaul of European convention on human rightsThere has been a lot of comment and reporting (including here) on one of the pictures of Keir Starmer that emerged from the G7 summit in Canada. It even provided the Morning Star with its splash. But, in his end of summit analysis, Peter Walker argues that another, more flattering, picture may have provided a more accurate insight into what the PM achieved.In the Politico article on ECHR reform quoted earlier, Keir Starmer gets a surprise endorsement from Jeremy Hunt, the Tory former chancellor and former foreign secretary. Hunt says Starmer would be the ideal person to get international agreement on updating the convention because of his background as a human rights lawyer. He says:[Starmer] won’t thank me for saying it but literally no one is better placed or more respected in legal circles to do a long overdue reform. Far better to fight Reform with substance than empty rhetoric on ‘working people’. Continue reading...

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