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In recent months, the UK government has tabled two Bills - the Bill of Rights Bill and the Illegal Migration Bill - before Parliament which would have the consequence - and almost certainly have the intention - of setting the UK on a collision course with the Council of Europe, and especially the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This post details how these Bills serve to undermine the UK’s obligations under the ECHR and explains their significance within the larger debate surrounding the UK’s possible withdrawal from the Convention. It places this debate in the context of the rarely-convened Council of Europe summit of heads of state and government in Reykjavik in May 2023, whose ambitious agenda is to protect the ‘common heritage’ of respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law in the face of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and other existential threats. CC BY-SA 4.0 Donald, Alice Council of Europe European Court of Human Rights Human Rights Act 1998 Illegal Migration Bill Strasbourg United Kingdom withdrawal from the Council of Europe 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-uk-vs-the-european-court-of-human-rights-on-a-politically-engineered-collision-course/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20230505-204527-0 230505 10.17176/20230505-204527-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)