As Shabana Mahmood announces a new migration crackdown, it is time to look again at the UK’s relationship with the ECHR, writes former home secretary Jack Straw . The Strasbourg court is guilty of overreach – and the UK must reassert its domestic authority T here is a delicious irony that one of the principal midwives of the European Convention of Human Rights ( ECHR ), Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, was profoundly conservative, and later one of the most reactionary post-war Home Secretaries, leading