{"id":337523,"date":"2025-12-10T10:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/pm-issues-warning-to-european-leaders-ahead-of-echr-talks-politics-news\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:10:35","slug":"pm-issues-warning-to-european-leaders-ahead-of-echr-talks-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=337523","title":{"rendered":"PM issues warning to European leaders ahead of ECHR talks | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sir Keir Starmer has called for a tougher approach to policing Europe’s borders ahead of a meeting between leaders to discuss a potential shake-up of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).<\/p>\n

The prime minister said the way in which the ECHR is interpreted in courts must be modernised, with critics long claiming the charter is a major barrier to deportations of illegal migrants.<\/p>\n

His deputy, David Lammy, will today be in Strasbourg, France<\/strong><\/a>, with fellow European ministers to discuss reforms of how the agreement is interpreted in law across the continent.<\/p>\n

In an opinion piece for The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>, Sir Keir<\/strong><\/a> and his Danish<\/strong><\/a> counterpart, Mette Frederiksen, said the change was necessary to prevent voters from turning to populist political opponents.<\/p>\n

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What’s the issue with the ECHR?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ECHR, which is the foundation of Britain’s Human Rights Act, includes the right to family life in its Article 8.<\/p>\n

That is often used as grounds to prevent deportations of illegal migrants from the UK.<\/p>\n

There has also been a rise in cases where Article 3 rights, prohibiting torture, were used to halt deportations over claims migrants’ healthcare needs could not be met in their home country, according to the Home Office.<\/p>\n

The Conservatives and Reform UK have both said they would leave the ECHR if in power<\/strong><\/a>, while the Labour government has insisted it will remain a member of the treaty.<\/p>\n

But Sir Keir admitted in his joint op-ed that the “current asylum framework was created for another era”.<\/p>\n

“In a world with mass mobility, yesterday’s answers do not work. We will always protect those fleeing war and terror – but the world has changed, and asylum systems must change with it,” the two prime ministers wrote, as they push for a “modernisation of the interpretation” of the ECHR.<\/p>\n

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What is happening today?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Lammy is attending an informal summit of the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n

He is expected to say: “We must strike a careful balance between individual rights and the public’s interest.<\/p>\n

“The definition of ‘family life’ can’t be stretched to prevent the removal of people with no right to remain in the country [and] the threshold of ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’ must be constrained to the most serious issues.”<\/p>\n

It is understood that a political declaration signed by the gathered ministers could carry enough weight to directly influence how the European Court of Human Rights interprets the treaty.<\/p>\n

The UK government is expected to bring forward its own legislation to change how Article 8 is interpreted in UK courts, and is also considering a re-evaluation of the threshold for Article 3 rights.<\/p>\n

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The plans have been criticised by Amnesty International UK, which described them as weakening protections.<\/p>\n

“Human rights were never meant to be optional or reserved for comfortable and secure times. They were designed to be a compass, our conscience, when the politics of fear and division try to steer us wrong,” Steve Valdez-Symonds, the organisation’s refugee and migrant rights programme director, said.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir’s government has already adopted several hardline immigration measures – modelled on those introduced by Ms Federiksen’s Danish government – to decrease the number of migrants crossing the Channel via small boats.<\/p>\n

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Starmer-Macron deal ‘a sticking plaster’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, French far-right leader Jordan Bardella told The Daily Telegraph<\/strong><\/a> he would rewrite his country’s border policy to allow British patrol boats to push back small vessels carrying migrants into France’s waters if he were elected.<\/p>\n

The National Rally leader called Sir Keir’s “one-in, one-out” agreement with Emmanuel Macron, which includes Britain returning illegal arrivals in exchange for accepting a matching number of legitimate asylum seekers, a “sticking plaster” and “smokescreen”.<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:<\/strong>
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He said that only a complete overhaul of French immigration policy would stop the Channel crossings.<\/p>\n

Mr Bardella is currently leading in opinion polls<\/strong><\/a> to win the first round of France’s next presidential election, expected to happen in 2027, to replace Mr Macron.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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