"Former new Labour cabinet minister said the ECHR was hampering effective border control due to “expansive, and sometimes inconsistent or incoherent interpretations” of its articles by European judges"
Telegraph: 29th March 2025: The Telegraph reports that Lord Blunkett is the latest politician to publicly suggest that the UK should back away from the ECHR and reassert UK parliamentary control over how laws are interpreted by its judges.
"Sir Keir Starmer should deport foreign criminals and illegal migrants through deals with designated “safe” countries that would override the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), Lord Blunkett has said...
...His intervention follows calls by Jack Straw, the former justice secretary, and other Labour members for Sir Keir to back away from the ECHR.
The former new Labour cabinet minister said the ECHR was hampering effective border control due to “expansive, and sometimes inconsistent or incoherent interpretations” of its articles by European judges... Last week, Jonathan Brash, the MP for Hartlepool, said the Government should exercise its “perfectly legitimate” right to deport criminals by saying ECHR Article 8 rights to a family life do not apply in such cases...
... There are a record 41,987 outstanding immigration appeals, with many based on human rights claims. The backlog has risen by nearly a quarter since September last year and is up nearly 500 per cent from just 7,173 at the start of 2022..."