Time to kill the sacred cow?

One of Sir Keir Starmer’s first gestures when he became prime minister was to declare “We will never withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights” to the leaders of Europe assembled at Blenheim Palace, where, as he reminded everyone, one of “the chief architects of the Convention” had been born (never mind that Clement Attlee was the man who took the UK into the ECHR, and that Churchill’s support for the idea had been very modest). Not a year on, and there are signs that time in office ...