This new paper from Policy Exchange challenges the view that the European Convention on Human Rights is a “British legacy” – and that to leave the Convention would be to a “betrayal” of Sir Winston Churchill. 

Through an exhaustive examination of the historical record, the report – written by legal academics Dr Conor Casey and Dr Yuan Yi Zhu – refutes that claim and demonstrates that the ECHR which was accepted by the Attlee government is radically different from the ECHR which exists today, with a vast gap between what its drafters had envisaged and the Convention as it exists today.