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TORY chaos over human rights continued yesterday as Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond ruled out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Mr Hammond told MPs that an ECHR exit was “not on the table” amid confusion over Tory plans to scrap the Human Rights Act.
Asked yesterday by SNP foreign affairs spokesman Alex Salmond whether he support a break, Mr Hammond said it would not be necessary to scrap the Human Rights Act.
He said: “The Justice Secretary is looking now at how best to deliver that in a way that is acceptable to the British people and compliant with our obligations under international law.”
Mr Hammond was forced to make the clarification in Parliament after PM David Cameron clashed with two senior ministers over human rights.
Mr Cameron is resisting attempts by Home Secretary Theresa May and Justice Secretary Michael Gove to quit the ECHR, the Telegraph revealed.
