The left-wing-dominated British Parliament voted on Wednesday to reject legislation from Brexit champion Nigel Farage to reclaim the democratic body’s sovereignty and control of the UK’s borders from the European Convention on Human Rights.
Despite voting to leave the European Union in 2016 — and finally leaving the bloc in 2020 — successive governments in London have decided to remain within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and thus be bound by its Strasbourg-based court.
The institution, which is only technically distinct from the EU, has directly intervened on British immigration matters and is often appealed to by open borders activist lawyers when seeking to prevent the Home Office from removing illegal an
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