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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
George Thompson

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Farage s bid to bring forward legislation to leave echr blocked by mps | History Defined

A motion put forward by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage calling for the UK to leave the ECHR was rejected by MPs on Wednesday (Ben Whitley/PA) - (PA Wire)

Nigel Farage’s bid to bring forward legislation for the UK to leave the European Convention on Human Rights has been blocked by MPs.

Members could be heard heckling as the motion was debated in the House of Commons, with one branding the Reform UK leader “Putin’s patsy”.

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