LETTER: Human rights: Britain's obligations and aberrations
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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Jolyon Maugham
Sir: In today's "Another View" (29 September) Bill Cash MP argues for ditching the European Convention on Human Rights on the basis that "we would barely notice" if we withdrew. He condemns himself from his own mouth: if we wouldn't notice, why does he complain so? The fact is, of course, we would notice: poll tax defaulters, impoverished and imprisoned, would notice; the families of those shot and killed without trial would notice; and so would everyone in this country who cares about human rights.
Yours faithfully,
Jolyon Maugham
London, WC2
29 September
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