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It is also to ensure that that democracy can deliver on the material needs of working class people right here.
It's typical snowflake Democratic policies.
They're not realistic.
Government-run grocery stores, people think everything's for free.
There is no doubt that there will be opposition as we see that opposition today.
And what has allowed us to surmount the unbelievable amounts of money that has been spent against this campaign, be it in the primary or the general, has been the mass movement that we have created.
Zohra Mamdani ending that report by Neda Tawfiq in New York.
Now, the European Convention on Human Rights is 75 years old.
The convention had helped create a common legal and political culture of human rights, democracy and the rule of law through Europe.
The treaty is now under increasing pressure from nine EU states and the UK over the issue of migration.
Our legal correspondent Dominic Ashani told me more.
The European Convention on Human Rights is a document which is at the heart of many of the constitutions of European nations.
It was signed initially in 1915.
The UK was the first to do so as part of an attempt, largely led by Winston Churchill and his allies in the post-war period, to try to impose across the whole of continental Europe standards and rights which would prevent any
any dictator ever coming to power again and that effectively meant coming up with some basic rules a right to a fair trial a right not to be imprisoned without due process a right to family life a right to free speech these kind of things it's entirely separate to the European Union so this is the European body that the UK is still part of and fundamentally it gives the UK an opportunity with other countries to
to come together to try and work through these issues.
Now, the controversial thing, Andrew, with the whole setup is the European Court of Human Rights, which sits in Strasbourg, right on the border between Germany and France as a symbol of reconciliation.
Its judgments have become increasingly contested in recent years, particularly around migration, as some of the European nations feel they're struggling to get the balance right between the rights of individuals, but also their right to manage their borders.
And people listening in European countries will know there's an awful lot of talk among politicians at the moment about the European Convention on Human Rights and whether it needs to be changed.
This started maybe five or six years ago, and there have been a couple of key moments along the way.