NEW National Sovereignty Policy to Restore Our Nation

The Heritage Party has updated policy on National Sovereignty as part of the new manifesto for 2025. Key to the policy are leaving the UK-EU TCA, the ECHR and other globalist treaties such as the Paris Climate Agreement that prevent us from making our own laws:

NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY

The United Kingdom should be governed only by her own citizens, and all legislation passed by Parliament should be formulated with primary respect to the national interest, and the liberty and prosperity of the British people.

English Bill of Rights

The English Bill of Rights 1689 states:

“.. no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate should have any jurisdiction, power, or authority within the realm.”

Any contravention of this principle is repugnant to our Constitution and we will declare any such legislation, regulations, treaties or agreements to be null and void.

Finishing Brexit

The United Kingdom left the European Union in January 2020, but the new treaties that have been made with the EU are far from perfect and leave unfinished business. We must leave the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) so we can take back full control of our rich 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone for fishing and disentangle ourselves from the ‘level playing field’ requirements that commit us to ‘net-zero’ carbon emissions. 

On leaving the TCA, we will set tariffs on EU goods and services at zero, unless the EU imposes tariffs on the UK, in which case we would set reciprocal tariffs at the rate set by the EU. We would then offer a new free-trade agreement to the EU that has no conditions on how the UK runs its internal affairs, with particular regard to the current onerous restrictions on fishing, Northern Ireland and carbon emissions.

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom. Previous governments have tied Northern Ireland into the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework which has divided our nation with a trade and customs barrier down the middle of the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We must repudiate these two repugnant treaties immediately which have compromised the sovereignty of Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom.

Ther United Kingdom is in a Common Travel Area with the Republic of Ireland meaning that individuals can move freely across the border with the Republic of Ireland and the movement of individuals without goods would not be affected by repudiating the Northern Ireland Protocol and the Windsor Framework immediately.

On restoring full sovereignty to Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will be in different customs zones and border checks on goods crossing the border with the Republic of Ireland will need to put in place. However, we will place an open offer to the Republic of Ireland to join a Common Customs Area with the United Kingdom, which would negate the need for border checks and be mutually beneficial to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

International Trade Deals

It is good that we are now free to make our own trade deals around the world, but we must ensure that any new trade deals with countries outside the EU are mutually beneficial and do not snare us into accepting new regulations that prohibit us from making our own laws, harm our essential industries or remove jobs to countries with inferior working practices.

Freedom from Globalist Organisations

The EU is not the only organisation which has impinged on our sovereignty. We must ensure that we do not make any treaty or join any international organisation which involves in any way the surrender of any part of the United Kingdom’s sovereignty. The British people must never be subject to the imposition of a foreign legal or monetary system, or the jurisdiction of foreign courts. 

To truly regain our sovereignty, we must re-think our membership of international organisations and agreements which previous governments have signed. We should remain members of international bodies, treaties and conventions which are beneficial to our national interests, but we should not join or continue to be part of globalist arrangements which dilute our sovereignty and interfere with our democracy by imposing conditions and policies on the nation which the people never voted for. To this effect we would remove the United Kingdom from these organisations, arrangements and schemes:

  • UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA)
  • European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
  • World Health Organisation (WHO)
  • Paris Climate Agreement
  • Agenda 2030
  • UN Migration Compact

Leaving the ECHR

Most urgently, we must leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and its courts to regain full control of our national sovereignty. We can trust that our own system of Common Law will better protect the human rights of our citizens without the interference of foreign activist judges.

The original ECHR is a good convention which was drafted in 1950 by British lawyers to help restore human rights to a continent devastated by the Second World War. Seventy-five years on however, activist judges in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg have made all manner of rulings which prevent the UK government from imposing law and order here at home and carrying out the wishes of the British electorate. 

They have blocked the deportation of terrorists and foreign criminals on several occasions, leaving them free to roam the streets of Britain, as well as ruling that we must recognise gender transitioning (leading to the Gender Recognition Act 2004) and give prisoners the vote. Our nation must not remain subject to such rulings.

All the most important articles of the ECHR are already embedded in our own Constitution but are regularly contravened by governments and activist judges, for example with the imposition of lockdowns and two-tier justice. While the ECHR fails to uphold many of these basic human rights, they will be affirmed and guaranteed in law by the Heritage Party:

  • Right to life
  • Prohibition of torture, and inhuman or degrading punishments
  • Prohibition of slavery and forced labour
  • No unlawful detention or imprisonment: Habeas Corpus
  • Right to a fair trial
  • No punishment without law
  • Right to respect for private and family life
  • Freedom of thought, conscience and religion
  • Freedom of expression
  • Freedom of assembly and association
  • Right to marry

Human Rights Act 1998

Tony Blair’s Human Rights Act ties the British Parliament and Courts into following the ECHR and obeying all the judgements made by the European Court of Human Rights. On leaving the ECHR, the Human Rights Act 1998 will become superfluous and we will declare it null and void.

The new Heritage Party manifesto can be read at heritageparty.org/manifesto

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