The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, does not rule out leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) if the European Court of Human Rights rules against the new immigration law that he will announce shortly and that will «push international legality to the limit», according to sources close to the president to the newspaper ‘The Times’.
The Strasbourg Court last year paralyzed the policy of deportations to Rwanda of the Government headed at that time by Boris Johnson, in a new clash between the court and the British authorities, who are now preparing a very tough anti-immigration legislation in view of the prospects of receiving a record number of migrants in 2023.
Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman have said they are prepared to walk out of the convention if Strasbourg rules against the plans, according to ‘Times’ sources.
«This bill will go as far as possible within international law. We are pushing the boundaries of what is legally possible and within the ECHR,» according to a government source.
The same source assures that the British Government is convinced that the plan will win in Strasbourg but «if the court decides to retain it despite our courts validating it, then we will know that the problem is not ours.»
«If that is the case then, of course, it will be willing to reconsider whether being part of the ECHR is in the interest, in the long term, of the UK,» the source adds.
The British prime minister last Thursday laid out the outlines of a new system that speeds up the procedure for detention, appeals and deportation of migrants «in a matter of days or weeks, not months or years,» he said in an interview with the TalkTV channel reported by ‘The Guardian’ newspaper.
In this sense, Sunak argued that the population should judge him by his actions to curb illegal migration, such as the signing of an agreement with France to strengthen surveillance of the transit of small migrant boats in the English Channel.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
