The focus should be on legally challenging the second Labour expulsion of the Chagossians. And, regarding the ninnies in our foreign policy establishment the UK should execute a declaration that the joint Diego Garcia military base does not fall under UNCLOS.
Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda – two cases in which Sir Keir Starmer was intimately involved at the highest levels – are also two good reasons why the UK, just as soon as this government becomes history, should withdraw from the European convention on human rights.
What is to stop Colton J, or another Northern Ireland judge, judicially reviewing Labour’s legislation (after enactment) and making another declaration of incompatibility?
The difference between the parties – political freedom (Conservatives) versus statism (Labour) – raises the question: whose equality agenda should now be pursued by the new government with the resumption of political life?
The context was the conservatives’ 2023 Northern Ireland legacy act (public law), which the feeble Starmer government set out to repeal and replace (now paused), in order principally to please the Irish government and reset relationships with the EU.