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Currently, these students can access financial assistance and pay \u201chome status\u201d fees, which are far cheaper than those paid by international students.<\/p>\n

This would be another breach of Britain’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, and Brussels would likely respond by launching dispute proceedings.<\/p>\n

6. ECHR membership<\/strong> and the TCA<\/p>\n

Reform has made quitting the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) a flagship promise, claiming Britain\u2019s departure from the agreement is essential if it is to implement its domestic policies<\/a> without constraint, such as deporting all migrants who enter the U.K. irregularly.<\/p>\n

That appears to breach the wide-ranging Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) <\/a>Johnson struck with the bloc after Britain left the EU in 2020. <\/p>\n

While the ECHR is distinct from the EU, the TCA <\/a>agrees to the \u201cprotection of fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals\u201d in the ECHR.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The TCA also notes the \u201cimportance of giving effect to the rights and freedoms in that convention domestically.\u201d<\/p>\n

There’s also the Northern Ireland peace agreement to think about. A report by the UK in a Changing Europe think tank<\/a> published last year says leaving the ECHR would require a renegotiation of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, as the treaty is underpinned by membership of the convention.<\/p>\n

Leaving could also cause the extradition of suspects facing trial between the U.K. and EU states to be suspended, given that one ECHR article protects the right to a fair trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently, these students can access financial assistance and pay \u201chome status\u201d fees, which are far cheaper than those…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1789,802,748,1193,6215,2814,6511,2266,2000,299,5187,1699,36,4884,4582,40,809,704,384,2443,8721,48,24488,1201,16,15,12340,1202],"class_list":["post-1187255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-belgium","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-british-politics","tag-cooperation","tag-data","tag-data-protection","tag-education","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-great-britain","tag-human-rights","tag-immigration","tag-negotiations","tag-new-zealand","tag-nigel-farage","tag-regulation","tag-richard-tice","tag-rights","tag-robert-jenrick","tag-trade","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-welfare","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117216588952349817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}