06-28-2022, 10:09 PM
Quote:One of the UK’s most respected diplomats has accused Boris Johnson of planning three separate breaches of international law, warning that trust in the UK abroad is being shredded.Kim Darroch, a former national security adviser and US ambassador, has attacked plans to neuter commitments to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), arguing they will violate the Good Friday Agreement. In an interview with The Independent, he said the threat sits alongside moves to tear up the Brexit deal for Northern Ireland and to deport refugees to Rwanda, breaking the Geneva Convention. “I think you can argue that this government is breaching international law in three areas,” Lord Darroch argued. Boris Johnson ‘shredding trust’ with three breaches of international law, former top diplomat warns