US EditionLabour MPs tell Starmer to curb ECHR powers in UK courts
- A group of Labour MPs has urged Sir Keir Starmer to change how UK courts interpret the European Convention on Human Rights, allowing more foreign offenders to be removed from the UK.
- Under the ECHR's Article 8, some migrant criminals have been allowed to stay due to concerns about their children's diet and mental health in their homelands.
- Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is reviewing rules related to Article 8 to tighten the loophole that allows some migrants to avoid removal.
- Jonathan Hinder supports the review, stating that voters want the government to reduce illegal migration.
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Starmer under pressure to curb laws that block deportation of foreign crooks
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street to attend the House of Commons to make a statement on Ukraine Summit, in London, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)w 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…
George Will: Congress needs a Supreme Court jolt to rein in a rampant presidency
A Madisonian moment has arrived. Power vested in the judiciary by the Constitution’s Article III might yet prod Congress into exercising its atrophied Article I powers to restrain today’s rampant presidency, whose Article II powers can only be checked by the courts, and by a Congress reinvigorated by the courts. George Will /Washington Post This process might advance Wednesday when the Supreme Court will hear arguments about the constitutionalit…
Keir Starmer told to overhaul asylum laws by own MPs after deluge of bizarre 'human rights' rulings let foreign criminals stay in UK
Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to overhaul human rights laws which have blocked the removal of a string of foreign offenders from Britain's shores
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