I'm a bit stuck, in that as a member of the Bar of England and Wales about the only places I can be employed are... England or Wales. So although I could probably acquire an Irish passport (both paternal grandparents born in Ulster in the 1890s) and S would presumably be eligible for a Scottish passport if such a thing came to pass, I think we're staying put.
I am doubtful we will withdraw from the ECHR, because so long as Russia remains a signatory a British government of any stripe is unlikely to want to look less fond of human rights than Putin. In the unlikely event that we do, I expect a thought revision worthy of 1984 as 'Human Rights' are no longer depicted as a Bad Thing but instead are fine so long as they are 'British Rights' - which I predict will be all but indistinguishable from the ECHR provisions, except that they won't apply to anyone who isn't British enough. What this means is that human rights litigation will actually increase, because we'll still be arguing about the scope of such rights but now we'll be arguing as well about whether or not they apply to the person asserting them.
I am doubtful we will withdraw from the ECHR, because so long as Russia remains a signatory a British government of any stripe is unlikely to want to look less fond of human rights than Putin. In the unlikely event that we do, I expect a thought revision worthy of 1984 as 'Human Rights' are no longer depicted as a Bad Thing but instead are fine so long as they are 'British Rights' - which I predict will be all but indistinguishable from the ECHR provisions, except that they won't apply to anyone who isn't British enough. What this means is that human rights litigation will actually increase, because we'll still be arguing about the scope of such rights but now we'll be arguing as well about whether or not they apply to the person asserting them.
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