Sky News reports:

[https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-courts-where-migrants-appeal-removal-from-britain-amid-clamour-to-leave-echr-13438679]

Inside the courts where migrants appeal removal from Britain - amid clamour to leave ECHR

Sky News has been to an immigration court appeal to see how the European Convention on Human Rights is being used in legal arguments by migrants to remain in Britain, amid calls for the UK to withdraw from it.

Apparently, based on Home Office data from April 2008 to June 2012 some 2392 migrant appeals were successful - around 181 on average per year.

Some people would say that's far too many.

The article goes on to say:

What leaving the ECHR would mean

Withdrawal from the ECHR would mean the guarantees it provides would be removed for everyone in the UK, not just migrants.

It not only protects the rights to life, liberty, fair trial and freedom of expression among others, but also prohibits torture, slavery and discrimination.

What this statement implies is that these rights did not exist for 'everyone in the UK' before the ECHR, which will no doubt come as a surprise to many.

But it also ignores that it would be a simple matter to replace the ECHR with our own UKCHR statute.

That way we are not dependent on some foreign power's definition of human rights but our own and can manage our internal affairs more effectively.