Home secretary calls the court ‘politicised’ and refuses to rule out mass tagging of asylum seekers
Asked if this meant leaving the European court, Braverman said: “My personal views are clear,” while adding that the government was “not thinking about that” immediately.has intervened
Downing Street is privately confident the ECHR is unlikely to be an obstacle to the overall Rwanda scheme if UK courts support it. The supreme court will rule on the plan in the autumn, after the appeal courtBraverman nonetheless used her BBC interview to attack the ECHR: “Last year we saw very plainly how the Strasbourg court thwarted our attempt for flights to take off to Rwanda through an opaque process at the last minute, which undermined the decisions of this government.
He said: “Lashing out at an international convention which has been integral to some of the UK’s most important recent developments – including the full decriminalisation of homosexuality, the criminalisation of modern slavery and a vital underpinning of the Good Friday agreement – shows how little the home secretary cares about or respects the law.”
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