Labour MPs fighting Reform want action and a European renegotiation looks unappealing. How would the PM sell a third way?
Mahmood says UK will seek reform of human rights convention
Can a lefty human rights lawyer be the one to take on Britain’s uneasy relationship with the European convention on human rights (ECHR)?
It is the most unlikely of causes for Keir Starmer. But there is a growing feeling in government that he should seize the initiative.
It will not just be a renegotiation in Europe, which ministers fear would echo the failed EU one attempted by David Cameron, but unilateral reform in the way the fundamental rights in the convention can be applied.
