LABOUR shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan threw his lot in with the Tories yesterday by threatening to weaken Britain’s link to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Courting conservatives in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Khan suggested ripping out the part of the Human Rights Act that instructs judges to consider the ECHR’s decisions in their own rulings.

Mr Khan argued that British courts have for too long acted as if the decisions made by the European court were irrevocable.