It has been reported that Home Secretary Theresa May said, this weekend, that Britain should consider leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. In a speech delivered at The Victory 2015 Conference, Theresa May said "By 2015 we'll need a plan for dealing with the European Court of Human Rights. And yes, I want to be clear that all options – including leaving the convention altogether – should be on the table". Moreover, she noted, "When Strasbourg constantly moves the goalposts and prevents the deportation of dangerous men like Abu Qatada, we have to ask ourselves, to what end are we signatories to the Convention? Are we really limiting human rights abuses in other countries? I'm sceptical. But are we restricting our ability to act in the national interest? Are we conceding that our own Supreme Court is not supreme? I believe we are."

Bill Cash, when he was Shadow Attorney-General (2001-2003), he recommended, and the Conservative Party accepted, the repeal of the Human Rights Act. It is important to recall that the 2010 Conservative manifesto stated: ―we will replace the Human Rights Act with a UK Bill of Rights. The repeal of HRA 1998 was Conservative Party policy, but under the Coalition it has been abandoned.

As Bill Cash has been saying, “The Human Rights Act undermines the best traditions of British freedoms. British constitutional history is being written out as the Convention is enforced, and the Parliament must be protected if we are not going to allow our constitution to become extinct.” He stressed, “It is about time that we legislated on our own terms in Westminster to deal with these matters, to ensure that the British voter actually sees legislation that is what he wants and that we have British law for British judges.”