@izzythepush,
The Telegraph fears for the future of Gibraltar - the reaction from Gibraltar:
Local NewsNo ‘read across’ to Gibraltar as UK gives up Chagos Islands sovereignty to secure future of military base, Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said on Thursday.
But the article about Johnson's "new idea" seems much more significant to me: the former prime minister told the Daily Telegraph there was a “strong case” for a vote on the ECHR, which some Tories blame for hampering their efforts to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Britain’s membership of the convention has become one of the most hotly contested issues in the Tory leadership battle. Some Conservatives have blamed the court in Strasbourg, which interprets the convention, for the previous government’s failure to implement the Rwanda deportation scheme, even though it was blocked by the UK supreme court.
Johnson, who is promoting his memoir, remains popular with many Conservative members, who will soon vote for the next party leader. Robert Jenrick, a frontrunner, is the only candidate to promise to take Britain out of the ECHR.
NB:
The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement includes participation in the ECHR as one of the required “safeguards to protect the rights and interests of all sides of the community”.
The Convention is also baked into the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement: in particular, the UK’s denunciation of the ECHR would be a ground for the EU to terminate the part of the TCA on law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.
Additionally (and more important in my opinion), it would involve leaving the
Council of Europe.