By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-03-22 21:32:34 | Updated at 2025-03-23 22:52:28
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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.
A group of "Red Wall" Labour MPs have told their Prime Minister to put his weight behind changes to how UK courts interpret the European Convention on Human Rights - which has meant that criminals from overseas can stay in the country for a series of highly controversial reasons.
Under the ECHR's Article 8, migrant criminals have been allowed to stay in the UK because their children would not eat foreign chicken nuggets, and because they would be "depressed" in their homelands.
The judgments have raised fears that courts are using overly broad readings of the ECHR - which has forced uproar from the "Red Wall".
Dan Carden, Jonathan Hinder, Jonathan Brash and Connor Naismith (left to right) have all urged their party leader to act
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Article 8 judgments have raised fears that courts are using overly broad readings of the ECHR
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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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MPs are set to attend an ECHR briefing in Parliament in Monday with a leading barrister, which has been organised by fellow Red Wall-er Dan Carden, the MP for Liverpool Walton and a member of the more right-wing "Blue Labour" group.
That comes as Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to review the rules in a bid to tighten the Article 8 loophole - which has also won the backing of Pendle & Clitheroe MP Jonathan Hinder.
He wrote in Politics.co.uk: "Yvette Cooper is right to at least be considering how some of its articles are being applied in the courts.
"When the voters say: 'We want the Government to reduce illegal migration,' it is entirely reasonable for them to think that the elected governments of these islands can deliver that."
