The Time for Talking is Over: Suella Braverman’s Plan to Leave the ECHR is the Leadership Britain Needs
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In a bold move grounded in legal clarity, democratic instinct, and political courage, Suella Braverman has done what few politicians today dare attempt: she has offered Britain not only a vision, but a plan.
At 10am today she will deliver a clear, meticulously detailed, no-nonsense legal blueprint to restore our sovereignty by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). And make no mistake, this is precisely what Britain needs.
Mrs Braverman, the former home secretary and attorney general, has always been unflinchingly honest about the growing threat posed by judicial overreach from Strasbourg. Now, with her 56-page legal plan co-authored with Guy Dampier, she has transitioned from principled critic to practical architect of Britain’s post-ECHR future.
“This is not simply judicial activism; it is a form of judicial imperialism,” she writes, with the clarity and conviction we so rarely hear from Westminster today. “The time for debating whether we should leave is over. The question now is how we leave.”
And how. This is a roadmap, not a rant. A masterclass in legal strategy from someone who understands both the inner workings of government and the constitutional fabric of the UK. Braverman’s paper goes beyond slogans, it is legislative precision paired with moral authority.
Her blueprint proposes removing ECHR references from the 1998 Belfast Good Friday Agreement, replacing them with UK domestic and common law protections, time-tested mechanisms that long predate the 1950 Convention. She makes a crucial point: human rights in Britain are not dependent on Strasbourg. They never were.
“The Convention did not create rights; it reflected the common law,” she rightly argues. And she’s not alone. Lord Hoffmann, Lord Frost, Baroness Foster—all have lent their voices in agreement. As Richard Tice of Reform UK put it: “This is a valuable and welcome policy paper on the vital objective of leaving the ECHR.”
This is not divisive fringe politics. It is the crystallisation of what 50,000 Conservative Post readers, patriots and pragmatists, called for when they signed our petition to leave the ECHR last year. It is a serious plan, winning cross-party support from senior DUP figures, blue Labour MPs, and the growing Reform movement. Braverman’s courage has cut through the old lines.
Let’s be honest: the ECHR has become a millstone around Britain’s neck. It has blocked the deportation of foreign criminals, tied our hands on immigration, undermined our veterans, and bound our soldiers in foreign conflicts with laws they never signed up for. As Braverman noted, “there is barely a single sphere of national life left untouched by the creeping remit of Strasbourg.”
This isn’t alarmism. This is what happens when a sovereign country is governed in part by unelected foreign judges, enforcing ideological interpretations at odds with our democratic will.
“The ECHR’s remit has become expansive, ideological, and hostile to the very idea of national democracy. It is time to acknowledge this. And act.”
Exactly.
Critics scream about Northern Ireland. Braverman answers with constitutional calm: the Good Friday Agreement has been amended five times already. It is not a sacred tablet; it is a political accord. It is flexible, and it must remain so. Her plan calls for four guiding principles: legal uniformity, democratic accountability, consultation with Northern Irish communities, and respect for the spirit of 1998.
This is not scorched-earth populism. It is constitutional conservatism of the highest order.
And it goes further. Repealing the Human Rights Act. Reforming judicial review. Amending devolution statutes. Renegotiating EU agreements. This is the Brexit we were promised—not a halfway house where our courts bow to Strasbourg.
“To depart the ECHR is not to dismantle rights, but to place their guardianship back where it belongs: with our elected representatives and our own courts.”
Hear, hear.
Braverman has now positioned herself as the intellectual leader of a new movement, one that remembers what it means for a nation to govern itself. She is not just ahead of the curve; she is reshaping it. Her backing for an electoral pact with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK makes perfect sense: she is aligning principle with strategy.
To those wringing their hands in the corridors of power: this moment will not wait. Sovereignty is not achieved by reviews and inquiries. It is seized… boldly, bravely, and with a plan.
Suella Braverman has given us that plan. Roll on 10am, so the world can read it in detail.
The only question now is who will have the courage to walk with her.
Because history will not remember the doubters. It will remember those who acted.
Read more here in The Telegraph.
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