Claim: EU law means that the UK will be covered by human rights laws even if we scrap the Human Rights Act.
Fact-check: Does dropping human rights laws require leaving the EU too? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is correct. the eu now has a stand-alone system of human rights law, which would remain in place even if we scrapped the older, separate system set up by the human rights act and european convention on human rights.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2015-10-13T00:00:00