Keir Starmer has said arguments from some calling for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights are just a repeat of the lies told to sell Brexit. <\/p>\n
This week, the prime minister called out Brexit as he delivered his speech at the annual Lady Mayor\u2019s banquet, an event traditionally used to set out foreign policy for the year ahead.<\/p>\n
Speaking to those in attendance, Sir Keir\u00a0said Brexit \u201cbroke\u201d the widely-held consensus that Britain should be a outward-looking leading power on the world stage.<\/p>\n
READ NEXT: Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as \u2018unmitigated economic disaster\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The PM hit out at how Brexit was \u201csold and delivered\u201d, saying that \u201cwild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled.\u201d<\/p>\n He then drew parallels between the empty promises and falsehoods used to sell Brexit and the current arguments from many of the same people claiming Britain should leave the ECHR. <\/p>\n The Tories and Reform are both calling for the UK to withdraw from the ECHR<\/a>, claiming that this is the only way the country can address the small boats crisis. <\/p>\n But Sir Keir said the idea withdrawing from the convention is a magic bullet is simply a repeat of the \u201cwild promises\u201d made about Brexit.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong, but that same spurious argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights, with the same wild promises being made to the country by the same people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n \u201cTo consider Brexit a template for our future foreign policy is utterly reckless.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an attitude of total impunity that says \u2018insult our neighbours, severe our alliances, choose between the EU and the US, severe links with China<\/a>.’\u201d<\/p>\n “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong.”<\/p>\n Keir Starmer says that “wild promises were made” about Brexit.<\/p>\n He adds: “the same argument is now being made about the ECHR” \u2014 Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) December 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n
pic.twitter.com\/jLOTSbWfQ9<\/a><\/p>\n