Boris Johnson’s reckless desire to take the U.K. out of the ECHR is unfathomable. The British were instrumental in setting up the ECHR. One British man in particular played a pivotal part.

Sir James Fawcett Q.C.

He also happens to be Johnson’s own Grandfather! Sir James Edmund Sandford Fawcett, DSC QC (16 April 1913 – 24 June 1991) was a British barrister. He was a member of the European Commission for Human Rights from 1962 to 1984, and its president from 1972 to 1981, and was knighted in 1984.