“What we wouldn’t want to do is bring all the treaty rights into English law and make the problem worse than it is now, where, for example, we have European judges saying we can’t do things.” Ms Truss told Tory MPs during the leadership campaign that she was “prepared” to withdraw the UK from the ECHR if reforms aimed at reducing the influence of judges in Strasbourg were not successful. Brandon Lewis, who replaced Mr Raab as justice minister and lord chancellor, will be tasked with “considering the most effective means of achieving objectives through our legislative agenda”, a government source said. He said the government was “considering the most effective means of achieving targets through our legislative agenda”. While the Bill of Rights was “unlikely to proceed in its current form”, he said “the principles and objectives in general (have not) been shelved”. Another government source said: “There is still an appetite to go ahead with what the immigration and deportations bill sought to achieve. “What you might see is a piece of work by the Home Office that is focused on the immigration side. The focus is likely to be on a new means of really making progress on the small craft and migration front.”
