Sadiq Khan MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, responding to reports on Conservative proposals on the role of the ECHR, said:

“The role of the Attorney General is to give honest and frank advice to the Government. He needs to speak the truth to those in power. It is now clear that David Cameron sacked Dominic Grieve as he didn’t like the advice he was receiving from an experienced lawyer who knew that the Tory’s half-baked plans would leave our international standing in tatters.

“The Prime Minister must as a matter of urgency publish the advice of his former Attorney General so the British public can see for themselves the consequences of what they are planning.

“The European Court of Human Rights is not perfect and Labour have set out the reforms we would like to make. But to walk away from the Convention that secured basic fundamental rights in the aftermath of the atrocities of the Second World War would be a hugely backwards step and we will never support it.”