The next litmus test of Tory purity
world, bad ideas would fade into irrelevance. In Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, they have a good chance of becoming official policy. Divorce the country’s largest trading partner? Sure. Send asylum-seekers to Africa? Let’s do it. Now there is momentum behind another scheme: leaving the European Convention on Human Rights . The problem of illegal migration into Britain is compounded by domestic dysfunction.
That is especially true when reform is an option—the third argument for staying in. The court can be pragmatic: recent changes to the rules about judges’ anonymity, along with much tougher criteria for issuing emergency injunctions, owed much to pressure from Britain. Thewas less sweeping than it might seem. The court can also be reformed.
Given its commanding lead in the polls, the position of the Labour Party matters more in the short term than that of the Tory party—and Labour has no plans to quit theif it wins the election. But the trajectory of the Conservatives, one of Britain’s two big parties, is not some minor detail. If leaving thebecomes the Tories’ settled position, it will show that quixotic pursuits matter more to them than the country’s pressing problems.
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