European human rights laws need to be ‘ripped up’ to tackle migration crisis, top Tory says
EUROPEAN human rights laws need to be “ripped up and rewritten” to deal with the immigration crisis, ex-Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned.
The Tory big beast made a rare intervention today to slam the ECHR as “totally outdated”, and urged Sir Keir Starmer to join nations demanding it is overhauled.
Britain is not among a group of nine countries pushing for a “new and open-minded conversation” about the interpretation of the Convention.
Frustration is growing at migrants managing to dodge deportation with ludicrous reasons by appealing to the ECHR.
Former Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt – a Conservative moderate – said Britain was best placed to lead the charge against overreaching foreign diktats.
He told Times Radio: “We have a globally mobile population. It is destabilising western politics.
“We saw the small boat crossings on Saturday. We need to rip up and rewrite international law.”
While created after WW2 for “laudable” reasons, Mr Hunt slammed it as “totally outdated” and said the PM should spearhead European efforts to overhaul the ECHR.
Sir Keir has vowed to pass laws ordering courts to throw out ridiculous appeals to European laws by foreign offenders or illegal migrants.
Recent examples included an Albanian drug dealer who tried to fight deportation because his son disliked foreign chicken nuggets.
Nigel Farage’s Reform have vowed to quit the ECHR altogether, while Kemi Badenoch’s Tories are open to the prospect.
Labour’s Attorney General Lord Richard Hermer was forced to apologise last week after likening calls to quit the ECHR with the rise of Nazism.
The Sun Says: Seeing red
HOW many Home Office geniuses does it take to work out that when the weather is good and the sea is calm more illegal migrants will try to cross the Channel?
And how many French intelligence officers are needed to think that when le soleil is shining it might be a good idea to send a few extra cops down to the beach to stop them?
That the Home Secretary thinks this new “red days report” is in any way illuminating manages to be both patronising and laughable.
We already knew the smuggling gangs — which the Government keeps pledging to smash — were cramming more human cargo on board each dangerously ill-equipped dinghy.
Instead, the useless Home Office has merely described a worsening situation.
It’s a public admission that the Government appears wholly powerless to stop the problem.
Ministers are still miles away from a viable solution.
Other than praying for bad weather to save their summer.