Another Labor MP, Jake Richards, agreed, published on X: “This government was elected to obtain a grip on immigration. We must not apologize for this. And if that means modifying the functioning of article 8 of the CECH, whereas it is so. ”
“As the Prime Minister said, we examine the application of article 8 of the ECHR to guarantee that our immigration rules work as planned,” the Ministry of the Interior said in a statement to Politico. “We will install plans to reform the immigration system in our next White Paper, which will be published in due course.”
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The problem for Starmer is that politicians have tried – and failed – to resolve the politically unpleasant decisions made thanks to the European Convention before. Starmer has long presented itself as the antithesis of these conservative politicians regularly suggesting that Great Britain ignores the decisions of the CECH.
Rajiv Shah, a former assistant on rue de Downing who advised former preservatives Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson on ECHR policy, said Cooper had run the risk of “looking like a bad act of conservative tribute” to announce the exam, warning that it announced “difficult measures that do not give tangible results”.
The 2014 Immigration Act has established the national rules of article 8 and the deportations “as difficult as possible within the limits of the rech”, he said, warning that “going much further would only be possible by breaking the ECHR, which the government is not willing to do”.
The Attorney General Richard Hermer declared to the European Council’s parliamentary assembly in January that the British government “would never withdraw” from the European Convention on Human Rights or “would refuse to comply with the Court’s judgments, or requests for provisional measures given in the United Kingdom”.
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