The head of the Council of Europe has warned that Britain will be lumped in with the likes of Putin’s Russia and Lukashenko’s Belarus if it decides to leave the ECHR, which has been blamed for blocking deportations of criminals, sex offenders, and even terrorists from the UK.

Alain Berset, a Swiss Social Democrat who serves as the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), inserted himself in the debate over Britain’s continued membership in the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its associated court, which was unaffected by Brexit as it is was treated by the government as a technically a separate institution from the EU…

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