Nick Cohen argues that the Conservative Party's latest obsession with leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is stupid, wrong headed, is deeply damaging to the UK, destroys the basis of our human rights and and replicates the Tories' enduring stupidity in dragging the country out of the European Union, a move which has led to international isolation and is causing huge damage to the economy.

Nick argues against the UK leaving the European Convention on Human Rights and compares this proposal to Brexit and describes it as a nationalist act of folly with severe consequences. Nick says Brexit had already damaged economic growth, GDP, and public services, while isolating Britain from the EU, USA, and China. He argues that leaving the Convention would break cooperation agreements on crime and immigration, potentially jeopardise trade deals, and undermine the devolution settlements in Scotland and Wales. He emphasises that the Convention is central to the Good Friday Agreement that ended a terrible sectarian 30 year-long civil war in Northern Ireland, and notes that the US had previously warned that leaving it could affect intelligence-sharing. He also criticises the right wing for authoritarian tendencies, citing Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's stance that Conservative MPs must support leaving the Convention. Finally, Nick calls on journalists to ask harder questions about the impact he Tories' latest idiocy would have on human rights and the rule of law.

THE LOWDOWN INTERVIEWS POLLSTER PETER KELLNER ON THE RETURN OF TWO-PARTY POLiTICS

From Monday, October 19th, you can watch or listen to Nick's interview with leading pollster Peter Kellner, who says we may be witnessing the return of traditional two party Labour-Tory politics in the UK. Will support for the Greens and Reform UK continue to slide, leading to the return of the long-running Tory-Labour Punch and Judy show?

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