Rishi Sunak’s empty human rights threat

Is there anyone in Britain who believes that Rishi Sunak will take us out of the European Convention on Human Rights? If there is then that person may also still think they got an absolute bargain when they paid a man in a pub £10,000 in cash to take ownership of Tower Bridge.

For the Prime Minister to airily imply that he is ready to take the UK out of the ECHR and the jurisdiction of its supervisory court in Strasbourg amounts to a new low point in his parlous handling of the small boats crisis.

‘I do believe that border security and making sure that we can control illegal migration is more important than membership of a foreign court,’ he told the Sun, when pressed on the issue.

Yet he would not even confirm that a pledge to leave that court would feature in the Conservative election manifesto.