Human rights reform

SIR – It is widely believed that the problem of illegal immigration cannot be resolved while Britain remains committed to the European Convention on Human Rights – so what is the Government waiting for?

With a Home Secretary who campaigned to leave the ECHR, a Justice Secretary who is believed to be sympathetic to that course of action and a Government with a “stonking” majority, what appears to be missing is the political will to take the necessary action.

If the Government is being deterred from leaving the ECHR by fears that it will be accused of abandoning human rights, it could easily counter those spurious claims by substituting the UN’S Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the ECHR’S stead.

If the crucial political will is not forthcoming, on this issue in particular, then the Government has real cause to fear the will of the people as expressed at the next general election.

Christopher Gill

Bridgnorth, Shropshire