"[On concerns over reputed rising authoritarianism in the UK] We're never going to leave the European Convention on Human Rights, despite all the waffling on about it. It's not going to happen. So there’s always that backstop."
— David Davis

January 1, 1970

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Government ministersConservative Party (UK) politiciansCritics of the European UnionPeople from York
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From an interview, as quoted in "David Davis: 'The right to demonstrate includes the right to disrupt'" New Statesman (27 May 2023)