52 h. ago Britain doesn't need to quit ECHR to have a 'sensible immigration policy' says Tory tasked by Kemi with finding UK a way out of human rights system

Shadow attorney general Lord Wolfson KC is leading a Conservative review of the UK's membership of the European Convention of Human Rights.

Events

65 h. ago Putin 'is pushing migrants to Britain' in an attempt to overwhelm borders, insiders claim

Russia is aggravating Britain's migrant crisis to overwhelm border defences and sow division in the nation, security sources have reportedly claimed. 

Politics

1 week ago Illegal migrants 'fuel the grooming gangs': Criminals exploiting small

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said there are growing concerns that foreign criminals are using the border chaos to slip into Britain illegally.

Events

2 w. ago British holidaymakers will avoid long airport queues after border deal agreed

Britain has agreed to a fluid border between the British overseas territory Gibraltar and Spain in a major deal with the European Union after years of Brexit wrangling

Economics

3 w. ago Kemi's human rights exodus: Badenoch to say she's ready to quit the ECHR in order to take back control of Britain's borders

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch will say today that she is 'increasingly of the view we need to leave' the Strasbourg Court to prevent activist judges frustrating attempts to deal with the migrant crisis.

Politics

3 w. ago The Guardian view on the Conservatives and international law: a party trapped inside its own destructive obsessions | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s European human rights withdrawal plan would weaken Britain, delight authoritarians and achieve none of the goals the Tories imagineKemi Badenoch’s announcement of a Conservative party inquiry into a British withdrawal from the European convention on human rights (ECHR) should fool no one. The working party under the shadow attorney general, David Wolfson, announced on Thursday, will not look dispassionately at whether the UK should withdraw. It will merely try to say why and how. The policy of withdrawal itself is almost, to coin a phrase, oven-ready.This back-to-front policymaking process exemplifies the party’s rudderless drift under Mrs Badenoch. Tory policy is not now in the hands of the leader or the shadow cabinet. It is in the hands of Reform UK and the opinion polls. Mrs Badenoch is a follower of events. Hers is the approach of someone still trapped in a party bubble which is consumed by the belief that withdrawal is the key to regaining the Conservative...

Society

3 w. ago Sir Keir Starmer has 'lost control of Britain's borders' after almost 1,200 small boat migrants cross the Channel in single day

One of Sir Keir's senior cabinet ministers admitted the latest Channel scenes were 'pretty shocking' as a surge in dinghy crossings overwhelmed French and UK border patrol vessels.

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