Sarah Ingham: Leaving the ECHR can’t happen soon enough

Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!” Thanks to a mega-decibel boom-box, Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation speech on Monday morning failed to bring to mind any of Shakespeare’s majestic reflections on the transition of power: it was less Coriolanus, more Carry on Cleo. For the fourth time in four years the Downing Street lectern can be likened to a scaffold, signalling the death of Prime Ministerial authority. But what should have been a solemn national moment became farcical, down to that Prat in the Hat, Steve Bray. The fanatical Remainer has been sounding off in Whitehall and around party conference venues at a gunfire decibel-level for the best part of a decade.

…

Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at ConservativeHome.