Classic Express nonsense. I have been telling them for at least 10 years the Human Rights Act and European Convention on Human Rights have nothing to do with the European Union but why let that get in the way of a good story? 
I haven't seen the Telegraph article which I think this comes from (because £) but the reality is that parliament did exactly this with prisoner votes using normal legislation, the Council of Europe accepted it, everyone moved on
An inconvenient truth for this government is the UK government and courts has had a fruitful dialogue with the European Court of Human Rights for the past decade and the judgments govt has objected to have been watered down (whole life orders and prisoner votes). Meanwhile...
there have been very few judgments against the UK (about 0-5 per year on average in recent years), e.g. in 2020 there were two judgments against the UK out of hundreds of applications to the court
Why have there been so few judgments against the UK in recent years? Because we have a Human Rights Act which allows people in the UK to resolve human rights breaches in our local courts. That's the point of the HRA. It works really well. Ask the many 1,000s of people who use it
A few years ago I helped make this set of infographics which aimed to show the facts about the European Court of Human Rights and its effect on the UK eachother.org.uk/the-european-c…
Those infographics led to this amazing Sun editorial with a few tips for me and other "leftie human rights lawyers" - that was me told! Haven't said a word about human rights since 🤐😃
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