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UK Cameron, Conservative cabinet ‘split over EU’

Wednesday, 03 June 2015 1:59 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 03 June 2015 7:17 AM ]

Mohamed Walji
Press TV, London

Differences are emerging between UK Prime Minister David Cameron and some Conservative MPs over the country’s membership of the European Court of Human Rights. Downing Street claims Cameron is committed to breaking links with the ECHR and the UK Supreme Court, but reports suggest otherwise. Mohamed Walji has this report from London.

With the rise of Ukip, politics shifted to the right in the run up to this new government. Now that the tories are in power they've promised to re-define britains relationship with europe. A main pledge has been to scrap Europe's Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
That has quickly hit a stumbling block as Scotland says it will keep the act, meaning England might have to scrap it alone. All this has caused anxiousness in the tory government. Now there's reports that David Cameron has backtracked on the conservative pledge, amidst a split at the core of the cabinet
The plans have attracted criticism from around the world, with a UN official warning that Britain risks following the example of Nazi Germany if it withdrew from the European Court of Human Rights.
Breaking links with t he European Court of Human rights would mean that British judges would have the ultimate decision on laws pertaining to human rights in the United Kingdom. It's a controversial idea, and should this happen what impact it will have is still not clear.

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