BREXIT NOT DAMAGING TO UK SECURITY

Whether one is an enthusiastic European or not, the truth about Brexit (British exit from the EU) from a national security perspective is that the cost to Britain would be low. Brexit would bring two potentially important security gains: the ability to dump the European Convention on Human Rights—remember the difficulty of extraditing the extremist Abu Hamza of the Finsbury Park Mosque—and, more importantly, greater control over immigration from the European Union.