We have all found ourselves making a point and seeing the argument run away from us unexpectedly. Perhaps that was Robert Jenrick’s feeling when he was challenged on a claim that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was giving British soldiers no option but to murder terrorist suspects.
‘Our special forces are killing rather than capturing terrorists because our lawyers tell us that if they’re caught, the European court will set them free,’ he claimed.
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