Just seen this in the Daily Mail. It is 100% not going to happen because you can't suspend the part of the European Convention on Human Rights which any challenge to the retrospective punishment would be based on /1 
This is so simple and clear I can do it in 2 tweets. Article 15 ECHR allows for suspension of certain ECHR articles in times of emergency but NOT for suspension of Article 7, the right not to be subjected to retrospective punishment. /end coe.int/en/web/convent…
Anyway, now that Brexit is receding into the distance predictably the human rights pantomime villain has been resurrected by the government and the right wing press. Remember what Dom said, he did warn us
