Conservatives to push for Human Rights Act to not apply to immigration decisions
The Conservatives have said they will push for the Human Rights Act to not apply when it comes to immigration decisions.
The party has tabled an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill which if passed would mean people cannot use the Act to appeal deportation or other immigration decisions.
Kemi Badenoch has said the UK’s “ability to manage immigration is hindered by extremely distorted interpretations of international laws”.
The party says it wants to ensure the Act does not interfere with the Government’s ability to deport illegal migrants.
Human rights
The Human Rights Act enshrines the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law and the Tories say their amendments would not disapply those rules to non-immigration matters such as free speech.
If this amendment passes, the UK will still be in the ECHR, but last month Mrs Badenoch suggested the UK would “probably” have to leave if it stops the country from doing “what is right”.
She told an event at the Policy Exchange think tank: “When it comes to the ECHR, I have always been very clear that the ECHR should not stop us from doing what is right for the people of this country and what is right in our national interest.
“If it continues to do so, at some point we will probably have to leave.”
The explanatory statement to the amendment laid to the legislation says it will ensure “this Bill and other borders legislation and immigration decisions will not be frustrated by UK judges using the Human Rights Act to hand down judgments based on expansive interpretations of the ECHR, or interim measures of the Strasbourg court”.
Mrs Badenoch said: “Our ability to manage immigration is hindered by extremely distorted interpretations of international laws.
“That’s why Conservatives are putting amendments in Labour’s Borders bill that will disapply the Human Rights Act from immigration matters. ”
National security
She said it is “critical to shift immigration powers from the courts to parliament and elected ministers”, adding: “Operating in Britain’s national interest means recognising the government’s primary purpose: defending our borders, values and people.
“Our amendment aims to restore control and prioritise national security.”
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No, No, Enough!
Trwmp’s UK Praetorian Guard muster,
Fat Shanks, Mogg, Jenrick, Braverman, Priti Patel, Piers Morgan, Andrea Jenkyns to name a few…
Ms Bennett, Guardian…
One of Jenrick recent missives was to declare that lady justice above the Old Bailey is blindfolded so as not to see any colour or sex etc. (paraphrasing). Then attacked judges.
Pity he didn’t check first. What was and is his role again?
(hint, she doesn’t have a blindfold)
Yep – no blindfold and no gag either
Oh, Tories trying to push a sly one? Who’d ‘ave thought it? They cannot get away with dehumanising everyone by wanting to leave the ECHR so they are now just trying to dehumanise ‘them’ (whoever they are) and come back for the rest of us later. Politics is a big wheel that turns slowly, too slowly for Tories, but this wheel needs to seize up permanently..
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Clearly and don’t we see it all around us.
and lets not forget that the UK pushed hard to establish the ECHR after WW2. Are Tories really that blind to history?
The Human Rights Act and the Conservatives party are incompatible. Just look how the Tories treated Wales over the decades. The racist Welsh Not. Aberfan disaster. Flooding of Elan & Tryweryn. Besides other anti-Welsh policies where our rights were nonexistent. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch wants to fool the public into agreeing that pulling out of the The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is the only solution to sort out the asylum problem forgetting that the Human Rights Act affects them too. I don’t want the Conservative party dictating or shaping what they deem are my rights. They cannot be… Read more »
The Labour party is also to blame for how Cymru was treated in your first paragraph.
Kemi, and by default, the Conservative party, is now on the pocket of a US dictator along with farage.
The Cons are trying to abolish freedom of speech.