Suella Braverman has revealed her legal framework for how Britain could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
The former Home Secretary’s proposals include amendments to the 1998 Belfast Agreement, otherwise known as the Good Friday Agreement, which underpins Northern Ireland’s peace following three decades of conflict.
The planned changes would eliminate references to the ECHR and replace these with domestic and common law human rights principles, according to the full 52-page document seen by The Telegraph.
Braverman said there is barely a "single sphere of national life" left untouched by Strasbourg.
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| Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has unveiled legal framework for how Britain could leave the ECHR"This is not simply judicial activism; it is a form of judicial imperialism,” she wrote for the broadsheet.
"The time for debating whether we should leave is over. The question now is how we leave."
It is not the first time the Conservative MP has bid for Britain to leave the ECHR.
Last year, she took a swipe at ex-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for lacking the "political will"to take on the convention.
PA | Suella Braverman had taken a swipe at her former boss
Today's announcement puts Braverman, the MP for Fareham and Waterlooville, in line with Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
However, her husband, Rael, quit Reform last week after attacks by its former chair Zia Yusuf on her and Robert Jenrick, who also supports quitting the ECHR.
Reform's deputy leader and Boston & Skegness MP Richard Tice said: "This is a valuable and welcome policy paper on the vital objective of leaving the ECHR.
"Until we leave the ECHR, we are unable to save the UK from inexorable decline in so many important areas"
PA | Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice
Writing in The Telegraph, Braverman said: "The ECHR, like so many post-war institutions, was born out of noble intentions. But intentions alone do not justify perpetuity.
"Its remit has become expansive, ideological, and hostile to the very idea of national democracy. It is time to acknowledge this. And act.
"We have laid out the roadmap to freedom. The path is there for those with the courage to walk it.
"The only question that remains is this: Who among us still believes that the British people are fit to govern themselves, and will act accordingly?"