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Sir Keir Starmer under pressure from own MPs to curb human rights laws that block deportation of foreign crooks

Published on March 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM

Sir Keir Starmer under pressure from own MPs to curb human rights laws that block deportation of foreign crooks
Keir Starmer leaving 10 Downing Street.

SIR Keir Starmer is under pressure from his own MPs to curb human rights laws that block the deportation of foreign crooks and failed asylum seekers.

Red Wall backbenchers want limits on how Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights — the right to family life — is used in courts to frustrate removals.

Their plea comes as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is reviewing the system following a string of controversial rulings.

One case saw a foreign criminal avoid removal even though their spouse was dead.

Another saw an Albanian criminal allowed to stay by a tribunal partly because his son would not eat foreign chicken nuggets.

Hartlepool MP Jonathan Brash told The Telegraph that ministers must “make sure the law is being applied in a way that is in our interests as a nation”;.

He insisted there was “a huge number of Labour MPs”; who wanted to deliver for their voters with “stricter control on immigration and asylum”;.

MPs will attend a briefing with a leading barrister on the issue in Parliament today.

Keir Starmer leaving 10 Downing Street.
Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure from his own MPs to curb human rights laws
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