British Bill of Rights shelved as Liz Truss faces pressure to sideline ECHR

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“She wants to go further. In its current form, it was a product of Dominic Raab but he was much softer on this than her,” said the ally.

“What we would not want to have done is to incorporate all of the convention rights into English law and make the problem worse than it is now, where, for example, we have European judges saying we can’t do things.”

Ms Truss told Tory MPs during the leadership campaign that she was “prepared” to pull the UK out of the ECHR if reforms aimed at reducing the influence of judges in Strasbourg were not successful.

Brandon Lewis, who replaced Mr Raab as Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor, will be tasked with “reviewing the most effective means to deliver objectives through our agenda”, a Government source said.

He said the government was “reviewing the most effective means to deliver objectives through our agenda”.

While the Bill of Rights was “unlikely to progress in its current form”, he said the “principles and more objectives generally (are) not shelved”.

Another Government source said: “There is still an appetite to forge ahead with what the Bill was seeking to achieve around immigration and deportations.

“What you might see is a Home Office piece of work focused on the immigration side of it. The focus is likely to be on a new means to really make progress on small boats and immigration front.”

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