Court rulings ease tension in UK-Strasbourg power struggle

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Court rulings ease tension in UK-Strasbourg power struggle

Alan Travis analyses the significance of the latest European court of human rights rulings and what they mean for Britain’s relations with StrasbourgKen Clarke and Theresa May have been awaiting with a certain degree of anxiety the clutch of high-profile judgments involving the British government issued by the European court of human rights on Tuesday. The issues involved – the ability to keep Britain’s worst killers behind bars for the rest of their lives, and the deportation of international terror suspects– had all the potential to take the political row about Strasbourg’s influence over the UK to explosive new levels.